Suggestions for tasks for web report

1: Compare your fish results with other results of the same fish species in the Global POP project; both on a wet and lipid based weight.

Are there large differences in concentration on a lipid based weight?

2 a): The maximum limit for dioxin and dioxin-like PCBs in fish (except for eel) is 8 pg WHO TEQ/g fresh weight. Do you see any sample in the Global POP database that is close to or exceed this limit?

2 b): The maximum limit for dioxins alone is 4 pg WHO TEQ/g fresh weight. Do you see any sample in the Global POP database that is close to or exceed this limit?

3: Try to find out if you have fish intake recommendations in your country and if these recommendations are for specific fish species and/or geographic areas.

4: The tolerable weekly intake (TWI) established by EU's Scientific Committee on Food (SCF) is 14 pg TEQ/kg body weight/week (SCF, 2001). How much can a person eat of your fish per day?

For body weight: calculate the average body weight in your school class or use 60 kilogram. Make the calculation with the highest measured concentration (POP level (pg TE/g) in your fish?

Reference: SCF, 2001. Opinion of the Scientific Committee on Food on the Risk assessment of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs in food. 2001 May 30.