Żarski et al. 2017 - Mercury in mallard tissues from Poland
Żarski and colleagues measured mercury in liver, kidney, and muscle tissues from adult mallards collected at Włocławek Reservoir in Poland. The study is routeable for game-bird and organ-meat mercury context because it reports tissue concentrations and identifies muscle as the lowest-concentration tissue. It does not speciate mercury as methylmercury.
Key numbers
- Tissues analyzed: liver, kidneys, and muscles from adult mallards.
- The source reports mercury concentrations as arithmetic means of three measurements per sample.
- The results section states that muscles had the lowest mean mercury concentrations among examined tissues.
- Table 1 presents concentrations of mercury in liver, kidney, and muscle for all birds studied.
Methods (brief)
Mercury was measured by cold-vapor atomic absorption spectrometry. The paper reports total mercury in tissues and compares tissue compartments statistically.
Implications
Certification: This source supports game-meat mercury context for wild birds but does not support methylmercury-specific certification rows.
Courses: It helps explain why organ tissue and muscle tissue should not be pooled without a basis label.
App: It can provide context for wild duck or game-bird entries where relevant.
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Verification notes
The source reports total Hg by tissue. Do not route it to methylmercury without a separate speciation source.
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