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Assessment of phenanthrene d10 recovery using a modified MSPD protocol.
| Treatment | Whole fish (mean dry wt. in g) |
Mean fork length (cm) |
% Recovery (Mean ± Std Dev.) |
Corrected mean total PAHsa (ng/g) | Sample (n) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spiked before freeze-drying | 40.16 | 18.25 | 87% (±8%) | 8415 | 7 |
| Spiked after freeze-drying | 36.94 | 15.83 | 89% (±3%) | 6485 | 29 |
| Mean/total of whole study | 37.56 | 16.30 | 88% (±5%) | 6860 | 36 |
| controls | N/A | N/A | 87% (±1%) | 3501 | 6 |
aCorrected for surrogate recovery of phenanthrene d10.
