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ArticleFoods (Basel, Switzerland)2025

A Human Health Risk Assessment of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Wild Marine Mussels from the Western Cape Province of South Africa.

Deborah Caitlin Firth, Philip E Strydom, Lutz Auerswald, Louwrens Christiaan Hoffman

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Article in Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Deborah Caitlin FirthDepartment of Animal Science, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town 7600, South Africa.
Philip E StrydomDepartment of Animal Science, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town 7600, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-6855-688X
Lutz AuerswaldDepartment of Animal Science, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town 7600, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-5639-1360
Louwrens Christiaan HoffmanDepartment of Animal Science, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town 7600, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-2736-1933

Funding

Harry Crossley Foundation 19407211National Research Foundation of South Africa UID: 84633
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are contaminants that pose potential harm to environments and human consumers. Wild mussels (

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marinemusselspersistent organic pollutantsrisk assessmentseafood

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PMID40646978
PMCPMC12249414

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