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Table 7 Average seafood consumption (ASC) of fish/shellfish and PCDD/PCDF exposure among fishermen and family members

From: PCDD and PCDF exposures among fishing community through intake of fish and shellfish from the Straits of Malacca

Sample

ASC (g/person/day)*

PCDD/PCDF exposure (pg WHO-TEQ/kg BW/day)*

Hardtail scad

19.13 ± 3.89

0.12 ± 0.03

Spanish mackerel

13.02 ± 2.98

0.07 ± 0.02

Grey eel-catfish

6.71 ± 1.12

0.16 ± 0.03

Dorab wolf-herring

10.14 ± 3.30

0.03 ± 0.01

Fourfinger threadfin

17.31 ± 4.72

0.05 ± 0.01

Indian mackerel

20.87 ± 3.15

0.07 ± 0.01

Japanese threadfin bream

2.02 ± 0.87

0.02 ± 0.01

Long-tailed butterfly ray

22.64 ± 3.09

0.06 ± 0.01

Sixbar grouper

4.46 ± 1.46

0.02 ± 0.01

Silver pomfret

8.95 ± 1.46

0.02 ± 0.00

Large-scale tongue sole

44.06 ± 10.07

0.13 ± 0.30

Malabar red snapper

7.60 ± 2.05

0.04 ± 0.01

Cockles

2.64 ± 0.58

0.01 ± 0.00

Prawn

12.14 ± 2.09

0.05 ± 0.01

Cuttlefish

11.78 ± 3.80

0.03 ± 0.01

  1. *All data are presented as mean ± standard error of the mean