OCCURRENCE AND SOURCE APPORTIONMENT OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS) IN GREEN MUSSEL (PERNA VIRIDIS) FROM CILINCING WATERS OF JAKARTA BAY, INDONESIA

Green mussels (Perna viridis) as sedentary organisms have been adopted as bioindicators in the marine environment for many decades.They have been potentially affected by anthropogenic activity and organic contaminants such as Womens dress-shirts polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in an aquatic environment.This study aims to determine concentra

Takefumi Yamaguchi1,2, Kazuno Negishi1, Kazuhiko Ohnuma3, Kazuo Tsubota11Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo; 2Department of Ophthalmology, Ichikawa General Hospital, Tokyo Dental College, Chiba; 3Department of Medical System Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba, JapanBackground: The purpos