Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality

LA Air Qual Div. 1998. State of Louisiana, Department of Environmental Quality, Air Quality Division. 

Sample Collection. Multiple samples of PM2 5 that were used in the mechanistic studies were collected at the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality station 0.1 mi from Interstate highway I-IO and 1.5 mi east of the junction of I-IO and 1-12 in Baton Rouge, LA, using the U.S. ERA protocol RFPS-0498-117 and a Rupprecht Patashnick Partisol-FRM model 2000 air sampler. Samples of PM 5 from the other four... 

Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality Office of Solid and Hazardous Waste P.O. Box 44066... 

LADEQ Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality LSU Louisiana State University... 

Meat samples from wild harvested subadult and adult alligators in south Louisiana had low Hg levels, averaging 0.131 pg g-1 [32], The highest level detected (0.386 pg g-1) is much lower than the FDA action level for safe human consumption of fish flesh (Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, 1998). Samples of both sexes from southwest Louisiana were significantly higher (0.176 pg g-1) than those from southeast Louisiana (0.098 pg g 1). No difference was seen between males and females pooled from all sites. The average alligator meat Hg level in Louisiana (0.131 pgg-1) was lower than values reported in other southeastern states and presents no public health concern. 

Institute for Environmental Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, Baton Rouge, LA 70804 Center for BioOrganic Studies, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148... 

Field and laboratory work was begun in March of 1982. Field work was undertaken by biologists with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. Analyses of biota and sediment samples for anthropogenic substances were performed at the Center for Blo-organlc Studies at the University of New Orleans. Water Quality and conventional pollutant analyses were provided by the laboratory staff of the Department of Environmental Quality. 

L. Wellman and J. Akielaszek for collection of samples J. McFall and S. Antoine for analyses of samples P. Benoit, S. Stewart and D. Meyers for help in preparation of this manuscript and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality for their financial support. 

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