| Abstract: | A public-health assessment conducted for the Texas Department of Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry concluded that exposure to contaminants through the aquatic food chain is an indeterminate human-health hazard in Lake Worth, Fort Worth, Texas. In 1999, the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Air Force and in collaboration with the Texas Department of Health, collected samples of edible fish tissues from Lake Worth for analysis of selected trace metals, organochlorines, and semivolatile organic compounds to support a human-health risk assessment. Left-side, skin-off fillet samples were collected from 10 individuals each of channel catfish, common carp, freshwater drum (gaspergou), largemouth bass, and white crappie but only from five smallmouth buffalo. The U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Laboratory analyzed the samples for 22 trace metals, 40 organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls, and 75 semivolatile organic compounds. |
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| ProdID: | 32976 |
| Citation Author: | Moring, James B. |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | iii, 23 p. : col. map ; 28 cm. |
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| Citation Series Number: | 2002-16 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Data on occurrence of selected trace metals, organochlorines, and semivolatile organic compounds in edible fish tissues from Lake Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, 1999; 2002; OFR; 2002-16; Moring, James B. |
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| Text: | Data on occurrence of selected trace metals, organochlorines, and semivolatile organic compounds in edible fish tissues from Lake Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, 1999; 2002; OFR; 2002-16; Moring, James B. |
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| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://pubs.water.usgs.gov/ofr02-016/ |
| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jun 2002 00:00 -0500 |
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