Table 6: Estimated Daily intake (EDI) of PAHs via fish ingestion.
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Sampou |
Gbarain |
Nembe |
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EDI |
Mean |
Standard deviation |
Mean |
Standard deviation |
Mean |
Standard deviation |
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Naphthalene |
0.0003 |
0.0001 |
0.0003 |
0.000 |
0.0002 |
0.000 |
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Acenaphthylene |
0.0164 |
0.0031 |
0.0194 |
0.0034 |
0.0052 |
0.0011 |
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Fluorene |
0.0008 |
0.0001 |
0.0013 |
0.0002 |
0.0009 |
0.0002 |
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Acenaphthene |
0.0010 |
0.0002 |
0.0005 |
0.0001 |
0.0004 |
0.0001 |
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Phenanthrene |
0.0014 |
0.0003 |
0.0006 |
0.0001 |
0.0007 |
0.0002 |
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Anthracene |
0.0016 |
0.0003 |
0.0004 |
0.0001 |
0.0016 |
0.0003 |
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Fluoranthene |
0.0016 |
0.0003 |
0.0020 |
0.0003 |
0.0016 |
0.0003 |
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Pyrene |
0.0127 |
0.0024 |
0.0067 |
0.0012 |
0.0155 |
0.0034 |
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Benzo(a)anthracene |
0.0046 |
0.0009 |
0.0055 |
0.0010 |
0.0061 |
0.0013 |
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Chrysene |
0.0120 |
0.0023 |
0.0031 |
0.0005 |
0.0125 |
0.0027 |
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Benzo(b)fluoranthene |
0.0009 |
0.0002 |
0.0004 |
0.0001 |
0.0017 |
0.0004 |
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Benzo(k)fluoranthene |
0.0052 |
0.0010 |
0.0027 |
0.0005 |
0.0032 |
0.0007 |
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Benzo(a)pyrene |
0.0012 |
0.0002 |
0.0002 |
0.0000 |
0.0007 |
0.0001 |
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Dibenz(a,h) anthracene |
0.0042 |
0.0008 |
0.0026 |
0.0005 |
0.0025 |
0.0005 |
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Indeno(1,2,3-cd)pyrene |
0.0106 |
0.0020 |
0.0044 |
0.0008 |
0.0105 |
0.0023 |
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Benzo(g,h,i)perylene |
0.0030 |
0.0006 |
0.0023 |
0.0004 |
0.0022 |
0.0005 |
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Total |
0.0774 |
0.0147 |
0.0525 |
0.0093 |
0.0656 |
0.0141 |
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Sampou > Nembe > Gbarain (The difference between each was not statistically significant; p-value = 0.586, df:2; Kruskal Wallis: 1.070 |
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