Environmental contaminants and animal health. Proceedings of the 26th Symposium of the Nordic Committee for Veterinary Scientific Cooperation (NKVet)

Foreword: Environmental contaminants and animal health. Proceedings of the Nordic Committee for Veterinary Scientific Cooperation (NKVet)

Authors: Raimo Pohjanvirta

Male reproductive health as a sentinel for environmental endocrine disruption

Authors: Jorma Toppari

Anthropogenic pollutants – an insidious threat to animal health and productivity?

Humans have always polluted their environment and, to an extent, the associated adverse consequences have increased in parallel with the global population. However, in recent decades, entirely novel compounds ...

Authors: Stewart M Rhind

Systematic surveillance for management of Dioxin contamination risks in the food chain: Germany and related cases

Authors: Abraham Brouwer and Peter Benisch

Contamination of livestock due to the operation of a small waste incinerator: a case incident in Skutulsfjörður, Iceland, in 2010

In 2010 contamination by dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs was detected in milk and meat in the valley Engidalur situated at the bottom of a fjord (Skutulsfjörður) in North West Iceland. The valley is narrow and su...

Authors: Thorhallur I Halldorsson, Guðjón Atli Auðunsson, Rannveig Guicharnaud, Ólafur R Dýrmundsson, Sigurður Örn Hansson and Kjartan Hreinsson

Environmental contaminants and food safety

Authors: Agneta Oskarsson

Mycotoxins in Norwegian food and feed

Authors: Gunnar Sundstøl Eriksen, Per Erik Clasen and Ellen Christensen

Cohort studies of Faroese children concerning potential adverse health effects after the mothers’ exposure to marine contaminants during pregnancy

Authors: Pál Weihe and Philippe Grandjean

Persistent organic pollutants and their effects on Arctic seabirds

Authors: Geir Wing Gabrielsen

Wild mink (Neovison vison) as sentinels in environmental monitoring

For monitoring of endocrine disruptors and other contaminants in terms of exposure levels and possible effects on the reproductive system, suitable sentinel species have to be used. The wild mink is putatively...

Authors: Sara Persson, Björn Brunström, Britt-Marie Bäcklin, Hans Kindahl and Ulf Magnusson

Trace elements and organic contaminants in tissues of minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorotstrata) and its feed from Icelandic waters

Authors: Guðjón Atli Auðunsson and Gísli A Víkingsson

Persistent organic pollutants in Finnish reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus L.) and moose (Alces alces)

The aim of this study was to determine 17 Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxin and Dibenzofuran (PCDD/F) and 12 Dioxin-like Polychlorinated Biphenyl (DL-PCB) concentrations in the tissues of Finnish terrestrial herbi...

Authors: Anniina Suutari, Anja Hallikainen, Päivi Ruokojärvi, Hannu Kiviranta, Mauri Nieminen and Sauli Laaksonen

Estrogen mimicking effects of xenobiotics in fish

Authors: Poul Bjerregaard

Developmental toxicity of pharmaceuticals in lower vertebrates

Authors: Cecilia Berg, Björn Brunström and Ingvar Brandt

Fish models for ecotoxicology

Authors: Leif Norrgren

Two decades of biomonitoring polar bear health in Greenland: a review

We present an overview of studies of anthropogenic pollutants in East Greenland polar bears over the period of 1999-2011. East Greenland polar bears are among the most polluted species, not just in the Arctic ...

Authors: Christian Sonne, Robert J Letcher, Thea Ø Bechshøft, Frank F Rigét, Derek C G Muir, Pall S Leifsson, Erik W Born, Lars Hyldstrup, Niladri Basu, Maja Kirkegaard and Rune Dietz

Biological and toxicological effects of non-dioxin-like PCBs

Authors: Matti Viluksela, Leo T M van der Ven, Dieter Schrenk, Hellmuth Lilienthal, Patrik L Andersson, Krister Halldin and Helen Håkansson

Effects of persistent environmental pollutants on the HPA-axis

Authors: Karin Zimmer