CONCENTRATION FACTORS OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS IN EDIBLE AQUATIC ORGANISMS

摘要

This revision of the identically titled document presents tables of concentration factors derived for edible plants, inver-tebrates, and fish from both freshwater and marine environments. The values are based on an extensive literature review of elemental concentrations in aquatic organisms and water and on ex¬perimentally determined concentration factors. The document also summarizes concentration factors for edible plants, molluscs, crustaceans, and fish derived from studies on radioactivity in the en¬vironment.nThe Appendix gives the basic data used to derive the concentration factors and the special procedures employed to estimate concentrations or concentration factors where the required data were inadequate or nonexistent.