Water pollution by heavy metals and nitrite ions is a public health concern around the world
because they can degrade the quality of drinking water and cause serious diseases. Lead …

Highlights•The highest amount of methylmercury was found in swordfish.•The risk by
methylmercury varies in different geographic areas.•Risk groups are women of childbearing …

Background The need to evaluate the human health safety of fishery resources remain
urgent in the mist of the ever-increasing fear of heavy metal toxicity from the consumption of …

Together with several health benefits, fish meat could lead to heavy metal intoxication of
consumers. In this study, we discuss Zn, Cu, Pb, Hg and Cd concentrations in fillets of forty …

This study measures total mercury (THg), methylmercury (MeHg) and selenium (Se)
concentrations in elasmobranch fish from an Italian market with the aim of evaluating the risk …

We provided the first multi-species study investigating the presence and organotropism of
trace elements in three tissues of 12 elasmobranch species. Shark species showed …

A total of 600 freshly caught fish samples (200 each of Nile tilapia, flathead grey mullet, and
African catfish) were collected from Manzala Lake, Egypt, and analyzed for determination of …

The twilight zone contains the largest biomass of the world's ocean. Identifying its role in the
trophic supply and contaminant exposure of marine megafauna constitutes a critical …

Here, we evaluated the levels of As, Hg, Pb, and Cd in shark meat sold along the Amazon
Coast of Brazil and used nitrogen stable isotope values to determine trophic position and to …

Sharks and rays evolved 450 million years ago, during the Late Ordovician Period.
However, during the modern Anthropocene, shark populations have declined at …