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MarcH.G. Berntssen, et al. ; Jojo Tibon; Heidi Amlund; Ana I. Gomez-Delgado; Marta S. Silva; Martin Wiech; Jens J. Sloth; Veronika Sele; Show all 8 Authors
aquaculture feeds; atomic absorption spectrometry; biomass; carcinogenicity; chemical species; fish; high performance liquid chromatography; ion exchange; oils; risk; risk assessment; sustainable development; water solubility
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... A responsible harvest of mesopelagic species as aquafeed ingredients has the potential to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14, which calls for sustainable use of marine resources. Prior to utilization, the levels of undesirable substances need to be examined, and earlier studies on mesopelagic species have reported on total arsenic (As) content. However, the total As content ...
... The use of plant-based feeds has introduced undesirables, such as pesticides, that have previously not been associated with seawater farming of fish species such as Atlantic salmon. Earlier wide-scope chemical screening showed that the organophosphate (OP) pirimiphos-methyl (PM-m) is one of the most prevalent pesticides present in commercially produced Atlantic salmon feed. Information on the safe ...
... The substitution of fish oil and fishmeal with plant-based ingredients in commercial aquafeeds for Atlantic salmon, may introduce novel contaminants that have not previously been associated with farmed fish. The organophosphate pesticide pirimiphos-methyl (PM) is one of the novel contaminants that is most prevalent in commercial salmon feed. In this study, the feed-to-fillet transfer of dietary PM ...
MarcH.G. Berntssen, et al. ; Jaime Nácher-Mestre; Eduardo Beltrán; Fiona Strachan; James R. Dick; Jaume Pérez-Sánchez; Douglas R. Tocher; Show all 7 Authors
animal and human health; aquaculture feeds; farmed fish; fish culture; food safety; humans; mycotoxins; plant-based diet; risk
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... Concern about the risk of exposure to emerging plant-derived mycotoxins such as beauvericin and enniatins has been addressed by the European Commission who requested the European Food Safety Authority for a scientific opinion on their risk to human and animal health. The studied mycotoxins were found in feeds with enniatin B and beauvericin at average concentrations of 19.9 μg/kg and 30 μg/kg, res ...
Salmo salar; acetonitrile; dietary exposure; dimerization; ethoxyquin; fish feeds; fish fillets; food safety; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; salmon; tanks
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... Ethoxyquin (EQ) is an additive present in fish feed and its fate in fish should be carefully characterized due to food safety concerns regarding this compound. Therefore, the objective of this work was to identify the transformation products (TPs) of EQ in Atlantic salmon. Salmon in independent tanks were given feed containing ethoxyquin concentrations of 0.5 mg/kg, 119 mg/kg or 1173 mg/kg for 90 ...
Salmo salar; feeds; ultra-performance liquid chromatography; pesticide residues; European Union; ingredients; salmon; ethoxyquin; mass spectrometry; screening; information processing; pirimiphos-methyl; quality control
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... The current work reports the development and validation of a qualitative screening method for 156 pesticides in Atlantic salmon feeds based on the use of ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) coupled to traveling-wave ion mobility spectrometry (TWIMS)/quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (QTOFMS). This novel hyphenation allows a straightforward estimation of the collision cros ...
... The salmon feed composition has changed the last decade with a replacement of traditionally use of fish oil and fishmeal diets with vegetable ingredients and the use decontaminated fish oils, causing reduced concentrations of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs in farmed Norwegian Atlantic salmon. The development of novel salmon feeds has prompted the need for prediction on dioxins and dl-PCB concentrati ...
MarcH.G. Berntssen, et al. ; Aksel Bernhoft; Helga R. Høgåsen; Grethe Rosenlund; Torfinn Moldal; Søren Grove; Stein I. Thoresen; Jan Alexander; Show all 8 Authors
... Post-smolt Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) were fed with standard feed added one of five concentrations of either pure deoxynivalenol (DON; 0.5–6 mg/kg) or pure ochratoxin A (OTA; 0.2–2.4 mg/kg), or no added toxins for up to 8 weeks. Performance effects (feed intake, feed efficiency, gain, length and condition factor), various clinical biochemical parameters, packed cell volume and vaccination respo ...
Salmo salar; analytical chemistry; animal tissues; antioxidants; databases; ethoxyquin; feed additives; fish feeds; intensive farming; mass spectrometry; oxidation; risk
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... Feed additives are typically used in intensive farming production over long periods, and hence, they can accumulate in farmed animal tissues. Concerns regarding the use of ethoxyquin as an antioxidant feed additive, have recently arisen due to its potential conversion into a series of transformation products (TPs).The aim of this work was to characterize the TPs of ethoxyquin in fish feed by a nov ...
DNA; European Union; animal proteins; fish feeds; grinding; homogenization; ingredients; normal distribution; polymerase chain reaction; poultry; prion diseases; ruminants; swine; Europe
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... In 2013, the European Union (EU) allowed the inclusion of non-ruminant processed animal proteins (PAP) in fish feeds. Plans also exist to allow non-ruminant PAP in poultry and pig feeds but to keep intraspecies recycling forbidden (e.g. poultry to poultry or pig to pig). However, due to the fear of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE), PAP from ruminant species remains illegal to use in f ...
... Elevated levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are detected in aquafeeds where fish oils are (partially) replaced by vegetable oils. The highly lipophilic PAHs solubilize readily in oil droplets and micelles in the intestinal lumen that can affect enzymatic lipid digestion by altering lipase activity. We therefore investigated the effect of two PAHs, benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) and phenanthre ...
MarcH.G. Berntssen, et al. ; Annette Bernhard; Josef D. Rasinger; Helene Wisløff; Øyvor Kolbjørnsen; Lene Secher Myrmel; Anne-Katrine Lundebye; Robin Ørnsrud; Lise Madsen; Show all 9 Authors
... The use of the synthetic antioxidant ethoxyquin (6-ethoxy-2,2,4-trimethyl-1,2-dihydroquinoline; EQ) in animal feed results in the presence of EQ residues and metabolites, including the EQ dimer (1,8′-bi(6-ethoxy-2,2,4-trimethyl-1,2-dihydroquinoline); EQDM) in animal food products. To investigate the toxicity and dose-response of dietary exposure to EQDM, male BALB/c mice were exposed to one of six ...
Salmo salar; Sparus aurata; azoxystrobin; boscalid; chlorpyrifos-methyl; deoxynivalenol; feed contamination; fish culture; fish feeds; fish fillets; food chain; food safety; fumonisins; humans; ingredients; laws and regulations; marine fish; pirimiphos-methyl; plant-based diet; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; risk; vegetable oil
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... European fish farming drives the development of sustainable marine fish feed where marine ingredients are replaced by alternatives such as plant meals and vegetable oils. A new scenario emerges where noncurrent and/or new contaminants enter into the fish food chain as potential food safety and/or welfare concerns. Novel analytical methodologies must be developed to assess the large variety of cont ...
MarcH.G. Berntssen, et al. ; Stefan de Gelder; Liselot van Och; Jan Zethof; Thamar N.M. Pelgrim; Josef D. Rasinger; Gert Flik; Peter H.M. Klaren; Show all 8 Authors
... Partial replacement of fish ingredients with vegetable ingredients has elevated levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Atlantic salmon reared on these feeds. PAH uptake in the intestinal tract is postulated to occur in association with lipid absorption and could well be affected by fatty acid composition. We therefore investigated the effects of a fish oil and vegetable oil fatty aci ...
MarcH.G. Berntssen, et al. ; Liv Søfteland; Jennifer A. Kirwan; Trond R. Størseth; Mark R. Viant; Bente E. Torstensen; Rune Waagbø; Pål A. Olsvik; Show all 8 Authors
Salmo salar; alpha-tocopherol; cell membranes; cytotoxicity; fatty acids; fish health; hepatocytes; lipidomics; mass spectrometry; metabolism; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; toxicology; transcriptomics
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... Extended use of plant ingredients in Atlantic salmon farming has increased the need for knowledge on the effects of new nutrients and contaminants in plant based feeds on fish health and nutrient-contaminant interactions. Primary Atlantic salmon hepatocytes were exposed to a mixture of PAHs and pesticides alone or in combination with the nutrients ARA, EPA, α-tocopherol, and γ-tocopherol according ...
MarcH.G. Berntssen, et al. ; Ole Jakob Nøstbakken; Arne Duinker; Josef D. Rasinger; Bente M. Nilsen; Monica Sanden; Sylvia Frantzen; Helge T. Hove; Anne-Katrine Lundebye; Rita Hannisdal; Lise Madsen; Amund Maage; Show all 12 Authors
Gadus morhua; Hippoglossus hippoglossus; air; bromination; data collection; diet study techniques; dust; farmed fish; fish feeds; fish fillets; hexabromocyclododecane; human health; humans; ingredients; monitoring; polybrominated diphenyl ethers; provenance; risk; risk assessment; seafood consumption; seafoods; toddlers; Atlantic Ocean
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... Brominated flame-retardants (BFRs) such as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) and hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) are considered hazardous to human health. Due to their persistence, they are still present in the environment and in biota and seafood is major contributor of BFRs to human exposure. Here, we used data from >9700 samples of wild and farmed fish, fish feed and fish feed ingredients col ...
MarcH.G. Berntssen, et al. ; Stefan de Gelder; Marit J. Bakke; Joëlle Vos; Josef D. Rasinger; Kristian Ingebrigtsen; Merete Grung; Anders Ruus; Gert Flik; Peter H.M. Klaren; Show all 10 Authors
... Uptake of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) across the intestine is suggested to occur in association with dietary lipids. Partial replacement of fish ingredients by vegetable ingredients in aquafeeds has led to increased levels of PAHs in marine farmed fish. We therefore investigated, intestinal uptake, tissue distribution and PAH metabolism after a single dose of ¹⁴C-benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) o ...
... Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) is a group of compounds, many of which are toxic, formed by incomplete combustion or thermal processing of organic material. They are highly lipophilic and thus present in some seed oils used for human consumption as well as being increasingly common in aquaculture diets due to inclusion of vegetable oils. Cytotoxic effects of PAHs have been thought to be partly du ...
MarcH.G. Berntssen, et al. ; Jaime Nácher-Mestre; María Ibáñez; Roque Serrano; Clara Boix; Lubertus Bijlsma; Bjørn Tore Lunestad; Rita Hannisdal; Martin Alm; Félix Hernández; Show all 10 Authors
European Union; animal byproducts; animal products; drugs; dyes; fish culture; food safety; industry; ingredients; mass spectrometry; metabolites; quality control; rendering; risk; salmon; screening; ultra-performance liquid chromatography
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... There is an on-going trend for developing more sustainable salmon feed in which traditionally applied marine feed ingredients are replaced with alternatives. Processed animal products (PAPs) have been re-authorized as novel high quality protein ingredients in 2013. These PAPs may harbor undesirable substances such as pharmaceuticals and metabolites which are not previously associated with salmon f ...
... Plant ingredients and processed animal proteins (PAP) are suitable alternative feedstuffs for fish feeds in aquaculture practice, although their use can introduce contaminants that are not previously associated with marine salmon and gilthead sea bream farming. Mycotoxins are well known natural contaminants in plant feed material, although they also could be present on PAPs after fungi growth duri ...