REQUIMTE, Laboratório de Bromatologia e Hidrologia, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal.
REQUIMTE, Laboratório de Bromatologia e Hidrologia, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal.
Environ Int. 2015 Apr;77:116-31. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2015.01.001. Epub 2015 Feb 18.
Brominated flame retardants (BFRs), frequently applied to industrial and household products to make them less flammable, are highly persistent in the environment and cause multi-organ toxicity in human and wildlife. Based on the review of BFRs presence in seafood published from 2004 to 2014, it is clear that such pollutants are not ideally controlled as the surveys are too restricted, legislation inexistent for some classes, the analytical methodologies diversified, and several factors as food processing and eating habits are generally overlooked. Indeed, while a seafood rich diet presents plenty of nutritional benefits, it can also represent a potential source of these environmental contaminants. Since recent studies have shown that dietary intake constitutes a main route of human exposure to BFRs, it is of major importance to review and enhance these features, since seafood constitutes a chief pathway for human exposure and biomagnification of priority environmental contaminants. In particular, more objective studies focused on the variability factors behind contamination levels, and subsequent human exposure, are necessary to support the necessity for more restricted legislation worldwide.
溴系阻燃剂（BFRs）常用于工业和家用产品，以降低其可燃性，在环境中高度持久存在，并对人类和野生动物的多个器官造成毒性。基于 2004 年至 2014 年期间发表的关于海鲜中 BFRs 存在情况的综述，很明显，这些污染物并没有得到理想的控制，因为调查范围过于有限，某些类别缺乏立法，分析方法多种多样，而且一般忽视了食品加工和饮食习惯等因素。事实上，尽管富含海鲜的饮食有很多营养益处，但它也可能是这些环境污染物的潜在来源。由于最近的研究表明，饮食摄入是人类接触 BFRs 的主要途径之一，因此审查和加强这些特征非常重要，因为海鲜是人类接触和优先环境污染物生物放大的主要途径。特别是，需要进行更客观的研究，重点关注污染水平背后的可变因素以及随后的人类暴露情况，以支持在全球范围内制定更严格立法的必要性。
