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Bird island in the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea

Recommended analysis examples

• Dieldrin in eggs of herring gulls from the North and the Baltic Sea
• Mercury contamination of herring gull eggs from the North and Baltic Sea

Specimen

• Herring gull

  Inshore, the herring gull mainly feeds from the sea: upon fish, mussels, and crabs.

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Analytes

• Metals

  Eighty percent of all elements on earth are metals

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• Nonmetals

  Only eighteen elements in the periodic table

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• Chlorohydrocarbons

  Group of organic compounds with at least one covalently bonded chlorine atom

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• DDT and metabolites

  Toxic and persistent organochloropesticide

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• Hexachlorocyclohexane

  Several isomeric compounds among the group of chlorinated hydrocarbons

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• Per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds

  Organic compounds which are fully (per-) or partially (poly-) fluorinated

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• Stable Isotopes

  Atoms of one element with different weights

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• Flame Retardants

  Flame retardants reduce the flammability of objects

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• Supplementary parameters

  Additional information for the interpretation of contamination data

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Sampling period