Asia-Pacific mussel watch for emerging pollutants: Distribution of synthetic musks and benzotriazole UV stabilizers in Asian and US coastal waters

• Main Authors: Nakata, Haruhiko, Shinohara, Ryu Ichi, Nakazawa, Yusuke, Isobe, Tomohiko, Sudaryanto, Agus, Subramanian, Annamalai, Tanabe, Shinsuke, Zakaria, Mohamad Pauzi, Zheng, Gene J., Lam, Paul K.S., Kim, Eun Young, Min, Byung Yoon, We, Sung Ug, Viet, Pham Hung, Tana, Touch S., Prudente, Maricar, Frank, Donnell, Lauenstein, Gunnar, Kannan, Kurunthachalam
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2012
• Subjects: Mussels > Pacific Area; Mussels > United States; Water—Pollution > Pacific Area; Water—Pollution > United States; Marine Biology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3886
• Institution: De La Salle University

We analyzed 68 green and blue mussels collected from Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam and the USA during 2003 and 2007, to elucidate the occurrence and widespread distributions of emerging pollutants, synthetic musks and benzotriazole UV stab...