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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 20.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2016 Sep 9;50(18):10226–10235. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b02108

Table 2.

Concentrations of Total PCBs and PCB congeners with dioxin-like activity in selected samples as adjusted wet weight (AWW), and calculated values of Toxicity Equivalencies of PCB126 (PCB 126 EQs) as described in Methods per references [70] and [17].

Year Decade Species AWW, ng g−1
PCBs, Total PCB77 as PCB 126 EQ PCB105 as PCB 126 EQ PCB118 as PCB 126 EQ Summed PCB126 EQs PCB126 LD50 EQs) 100*(PCB126 EQs/Total PCBs)
1972 1970 CT 28815 133.50 0.59 0.12 158.21 1.52 0.55
1972 1970 CT 28744 68.50 0.47 0.10 89.17 0.86 0.31
1972 1970 CT 25837 100.00 0.39 0.09 121.48 1.17 0.47
1972 1970 CT 20560 93.00 0.39 0.08 120.77 1.16 0.59
1972 1970 CT 20002 23.80 0.25 0.06 28.74 0.28 0.14
1972 1970 CT 16515 139.50 0.40 0.09 159.09 1.53 0.96
1972 1970 CT 11991 169.00 0.54 0.11 208.94 2.01 1.74
1972 1970 CT 2628 0.27 0.02 0.01 1.32 0.01 0.05
1972 1970 CT 1553 4.15 0.02 0.01 5.43 0.05 0.35
1972 1970 RT 8246 6.55 0.14 0.03 17.22 0.17 0.21
1994 1990 RT 1152 0.37 0.05 0.02 1.03 0.01 0.09
1995 1990 CT 3852 3.99 0.16 0.06 6.56 0.06 0.17
1995 1990 CT 1698 0.31 0.06 0.03 1.02 0.01 0.06
1996 1990 CT 2534 0.80 0.12 0.05 2.00 0.02 0.08
1996 1990 CT 1600 0.39 0.06 0.03 0.98 0.01 0.06
1998 1990 CT 1694 0.67 0.06 0.03 1.75 0.02 0.10
1998 1990 RT 1614 0.73 0.06 0.03 1.84 0.02 0.11
1998 1990 RT 1403 0.14 0.05 0.02 0.71 0.01 0.05
1999 1990 CT 1646 0.74 0.04 0.02 1.65 0.02 0.10
1999 1990 RT 2030 0.24 0.07 0.03 1.15 0.01 0.06
1999 1990 RT 1705 0.52 0.06 0.03 2.10 0.02 0.12
2005 2000 CT 3112 2.88 0.12 0.06 5.17 0.05 0.17
2005 2000 CT 2434 0.77 0.07 0.03 2.07 0.02 0.08
2005 2000 RT 1289 0.40 0.04 0.02 1.38 0.01 0.11
2005 2000 RT 1145 0.44 0.03 0.02 1.25 0.01 0.11