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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2015 Apr 1;23(3):2058–2080. doi: 10.1007/s11356-015-4383-0

Table 5A.

Levels of C-PCBs in human blood samples. All units were adjusted to ng/g, see footnotes.

Matrix Country/population Number of samples PCB 91 PCB 95 PCB 132 PCB 136 PCB 149 PCB 153 PCB 183 Reference Year of sampling
Seruma US/gen. pop. (NHANES) 1873 0.004d 0.14 0.01d (Patterson et al. 2009)
2009
Plasmab Canada/gen. pop. and non-H lymp 422 4.4 nd - 0.5 (Spinelli et al. 2007)
2007
Serumb US/natives 753 nd-0.19 nd-0.32 nd-0.23 nd-0.16 nd-0.25c 6.7 nd-0.75 (DeCaprio et al. 2005)
2005
Seruma US/natives 314 0.8–8.6 26–32 1.8–4.2 (Schaeffer et al. 2006)
2006
Serumb US/sport fishermen 99 0.8c 0.06d (Turyk et al. 2006)
2006
Serumb US/occup. exp. 165 0.4–93c 0.2–90c 0.06–26c (Wolff et al. 1992)
1992
Seruma,b US/occup. exp. 52 0.05–4.2 0.16–11 0.32–23 0.14–6.9c (Fait et al. 1989)
1989
US/gen. pop. 56 0.07–7.8 0.15–5.5 0.17–6.1 0.05–2.4c
Seruma Slovakia/gen. pop. 315 nd-0.3 0.0003–0.5 nd-0.9c nd-1.2 0.4–65 0.3–5.3 (Jursa et al. 2006)
2006
Seruma,b Romania/gen. pop. 2 0.13–2.9 0.7–3.8 0.02–0.6 (Covaci et al. 2001)
2001
Serumb US/women gen. pop. 15 nd-0.06 0.004–0.2 0.01–0.05 (Whitcomb et al. 2005)
2005

Analytical techniques:

a

GC/MS or HRMS,

b

GC-ECD,

c

co-eluting with another congener(s),

d

geometric mean;

Abbreviations: US – United States, nd - MDL or otherwise defined detection limit, where available; non-H. Lymph. – non-Hodginks lymphoma; gen. pop. – general population; occup. exp. – occupational exposure; data reexpression for the table: a) according to published data (Ward et al. 2000), the density of serum used was 1.026 g/ml, and the following units were assumed to be equivalent: ppb = ng/g, ng/ml = μg/L. The same assumption was made for blood plasma. b) The serum lipids content was calculated as 7 mg/g according to (Phillips et al. 1989) (factor x 0.007), and plasma lipids were calculated as 6 mg/ml according to (Michaels et al. 1960). The whole blood lipids were assumed to be same as plasma.