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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Risk Anal. 2018 Mar 13;38(9):1944–1961. doi: 10.1111/risa.12985

Table III.

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons detected in shrimp samples considered of local origin provided by study participants.

PAH(s) Number
of
Samples
with
Detects
(% of
total)		 Mean
Concentration
(PPB, ± SD)		 Geometric
Mean
Concentration
(PPB)		 Maximum
Concentration
(PPB)
Naphthalene 24 (57%) 8.2 (7.8) 6.1 36.6
C1-Naphthalenes 7 (17%) 18.4 (22.8) 10.4 61.3
C2-Naphthalenes 1 (2%) 56.8 56.8 56.8
Dibenzthiophene 2 (5%) 37.4 (14.0) 36.0 47.3
Phenanthrene 8 (19%) 2.2 (0.6) 2.1 3.2
Pyrene 2 (5%) 4.0 (1.7) 3.8 5.2
Chrysene 2 (5%) 1.8 (0.2) 1.8 1.9