Relative bioavailability of tropical volcanic soil-bound chlordecone in laying hens (Gallus domesticus)
The former use of chlordecone (CLD) in the French West Indies has resulted in long-term pollution of soils and of food chains. CLD may be transferred into eggs of hens reared outdoors, through polluted soil ingestion. Tropical volcanic soils display variable capacities of pollutant retention: CLD is less available and more persistent in andosol than in nitisol. The impact of soil type on CLD bioavailability to hens was tested through a relative bioavailability study. The deposition of CLD in egg yolk and in abdominal fat was measured in 42 individually housed laying hens fed with diets containing graded levels of CLD from polluted andosol, nitisol, or spiked oil during 23 days. Within each ingested matrix, the concentration of CLD in yolk and in abdominal fat linearly increased with the amount of ingested CLD (P<0.001). However, the response to andosol diets and to nitisol diets was not different from the response to oil diets (P>0.1), indicating that CLD was equally bioavailable to laying hens, irrespective of the matrix. This suggests that the hen's gastrointestinal tract efficiently extracts CLD from the two tropical volcanic soils, regardless of their retention capacity. Thus, hens reared on polluted soils with CLD may lay contaminated eggs.
Main Authors: | Jondreville, Catherine, Bouveret, Cécile, Jannoyer-Lesueur, Magalie, Rychen, Guido, Feidt, Cyril |
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Format: | article biblioteca |
Language: | eng |
Subjects: | P02 - Pollution, H02 - Pesticides, P33 - Chimie et physique du sol, L02 - Alimentation animale, Q03 - Contamination et toxicologie alimentaires, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_36645, http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3081, |
Online Access: | http://agritrop.cirad.fr/567374/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/567374/1/document_567374.pdf |
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