AMAP Greenland and the Faroe Islands 1997-2001
Dietary habit
Positive correlation with harmful substances
(unless otherwise: indicated)
Number of whale meals
Hair mercury**, HCB, PCB 118, PCB 105**, PCB 138,
DDE, DDT**, t-nonachlor**
Total amount of whale meat
Hair mercury**, PCB 118, PCB 105, DDE, DDT**, t-
nonachlor**
Number of blubber meals
PCB 118, PCB 105, PCB138, SPCB**, DDE, DDT*,
ratio DDT/DDE, t-nonachlor**
Estimated total amount of
blubber
Hair mercury**, PCB 118, PCB 105, PCB 138,
SPCB**, DDE**, DDT**, ratio DDT/DDE, t-
nonachlor**
Number of other meals with
dried blubber
Hair mercury**, PCB 118**, PCB 153, PCB 105, PCB
138**, sum of PCBs, DDE**, DDT**, ratio
DDE/DDT, t-nonachlor**
Number of fish meals per
week
Hair mercury**, PCB 105, PCB 118, DDT, DDE, t-
nonachlor
Meals with fulmar
HCB, PCB 118**, PCB 153**, PCB 105**, PCB 138,
PCB 156**, PCB 180, SPCB, DDE, t-nonachlor**
Meals with other seabirds
HCB, PCB 118, PCB 105, DDT
Number of other meals with
meat per week
Negative correlation to: hair mercury**, HCB, HCH
** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed); all other correlations were significant at the 0.05
level.
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