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Bars indicate average percentages of each PBDE in the lake food web components included in the respective trophic category. Error bars indicate standard deviations. Different bar colors are used to identify the trophic levels across figures. BDE-209 is the current congener produced industrially in Europe. Congeners BDE-35, BDE-77 and BDE-156 have never been present in any industrial mixture.
