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| | ES&T Online News: Researchers find new POP |
 | | Overall, the TPT levels in the deep-sea fish were surprising, because they were so much higher than the levels of tributyltin (TBT), another organotin compound that has received much more attention because of its toxic properties, says Cinta Porte-Visa, a researcher with IIQAB-CSISs Environmental Chemistry Department and the papers corresponding author. |
 | | Still, the TPT levels found in these deep-sea fish are much higher than levels recorded in organisms from the Mediterranean coast, Porte-Visa says, and on a par with the highest levels reported to date, which were recorded in horseshoe crabs on the Japanese coast. |
 | | However, laboratory exposure studies have shown TPT produces a wide spectrum of toxic effects in aquatic and terrestrial organisms, including effects on the immune system, reproductive/developmental effects, and cancers of the endocrine system organs, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. |
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