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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 15.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2017 Feb 23;51(5):3021–3031. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b05162

Table 2.

Summary of the Human Health Screening Values (SVs) and Wildlife Values (WV), with All Values Being Presented in μg/kg Wet Weight (ppb); and the Applied Fillet to Whole Fish Conversion Factorsa

compound cancer SV noncancer SV mink WV kingfisher WV fillet to whole fish conversion factor
PCBs 12 47 72 242 1.83
PBDEs N/A 210 21 8.7b 1.50
DDT 69 120 216 12.0 1.66
chlordane 67 1200 573 3.1 1.44
dieldrin 1.5 120 20 360
A

HH SVs are based on the upper estimates of consuming one 8 oz meal of fish per week. See Methods Section 2.4 for a description of Cancer and Non-Cancer SVs, and WV.

B

Kestril WV instead of Kingfisher, taken from Canadian Environmental Protection Act(38)