Albacore

Dorothy M. Settle and Clair C. Patterson. Lead in Albacore Guide to Lead Pollution in Americans. Science. 207 (Mar. 14, 1980) 1167-1176. 

Settle D.M., Patterson C.C. Lead in Albacore Guide to lead pollution in Americans. Science 1980 207 1167-1176. 

Albacore, Thunnus alalunga, southern California near San Diego, liver Summer 1964 vs. summer 1965 110mAg 3 FW vs. 4 FW 36... 

Settle, D., and C. C. Patterson (1980), "Lead in Albacore Quide to Lead Pollution in Americans", Science 207, 1167-1176. 

Gloria, M., Daeschel, M.A., Craven, C. and Hilenbrand Jr., K.S. (1999). Histamine and other biogenic amines in albacore tuna, J. Aqu. Food Prod. TechnoL, 8, 54. 

Types of Fish. The fish most commonly implicated in these outbreaks are the so-called scombroid fish belonging to the families Scomberesocidae and Scombridae. These fish would include the many varieties of tuna, skipjack, bonito, albacore, mackerel, Spanish mackerel, bluefish, saury, butterfly kingfish, and seerfish. Tuna, skipjack, and mackerel are the most commonly involved scombroid fish. 

Decomposition of tuna and other scombroid marine fish (albacore, bonito, mackerel, sardines, etc.) is usually characterized by the formation of high levels of histamine (1- ) > sometimes in excess of 5 mg per g of loin tissue. Since fresh tuna has essentially no free histamine (j4- ), the presence of histamine is considered to be an indication of decomposition (8-10), Histamine is particularly suitable as an indicator of prior spoilage in canned tuna ( 2, 11-13)... 

The St Helena range consists of steaks of yellowfin and albacore tuna and wahoo (a member of the Barracuda family), fillets of mackerel (a different species to the North Atlantic variety - smaller and less oily), grouper (with a white, flaky, cod-like appearance), bullseye (a delicate, fine-textured fish), lobster (or crawfish) tails, together with a range of smoked fish (hot- and cold-smoked yellowfin tuna, and cold-smoked wahoo). 

Settle D. M. aud Pattersou C. C. (1980) Lead iu albacore guide to lead pollutiou iu Americaus. Science 207, 1167-1176. 

Similar inconsistencies have been encountered in the determination of other elements such as selenium [125,133], arsenic [118,130], copper [119,123] and zinc [120,122]. On the other hand, methods for the determination of mercury are slightly more consistent, with many workers using a closed-vessel nitric acid digestion procedure. Good results have thus been obtained with pig kidney [124,141], mussel tissue [138], cod muscle [137], citrus leaves [136], pine needles [136], albacore tuna [131] and fish tissue [124], among others. 

Tuna including yellowfin, skipjack, bluefin, albacore, and bigeye is one of the worldwide favorite fish species (Aewsiri et ah, 2008). The total catch of tuna in the world has increased continuously from 0.4 to 3.9... 

It should be emphasised that the specificity of attraction of the predator to its prey is not fixed to a certain extent, it would appear that some species can be conditioned to respond to organisms other than their habitual prey, when the latter disappear. This is the case for the tuna Thunnus albacores (Atema et al., 1977), and the starfish Asterias rubens (Castilla, 1972). 

Atema, J., Holland, K. and Ikehara, W., 1977. Chemical Search Image Olfactory Responses of Yellowfin Tuna (Thunnus albacores) to Prey Odors. Unpublished Report. 

Certified reference materials are commercially available for total arsenic concentrations in e.g. water, bovine liver, some plant materials, various environmental materials, oyster tissue, albacore tuna, mixed diets, milk powder and urine (LGC, 1992) but no materials are yet available with certified amounts of arsenic species. However, work is under way at... 

MacCrehan and Durst (1978) developed a method for the determination of methyl-, ethyl-, and phenylmercury, based on reverse phase LC and differential pulse electrochemical detection. Fish samples were analyzed after alkaline hydrolysis, acidification with hydrochloric acid, and extraction into toluene. A detection limit of 2 /result obtained for a reference sample (NIST RM-50 Albacore tuna), 0.93 mg/kg, was in very close agreement to the certified total mercury level. Lajunen et al. (1984) and... 

Fish (albacore tuna, silver-line grunt, bigeye snapper, brown-backed toadfish, hake, trout, lingcod, catfish, rainbow trout, yellow sea bream, common horse mackerel, tiger puffer, and others)... 

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