Endosulfan, an organochlorine pesticide, is categorized as persistent organic pollutants
(POPs) in the Stockholm Convention and phased out globally. In this review, the distribution …

Growing production and consumption of pharmaceuticals is a global problem. Due to
insufficient data on the concentration and distribution of pharmaceuticals in the marine …

Highlights•Floating MPs were collected along the western coasts of the Central Adriatic
Sea.•MPs were found in all sampling stations showing the highest abundance in open …

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are one of the most used halogenated flame
retardants worldwide, and exert neurotoxicity, reproductive toxicity, endocrine interference …

Marine mussels, especially Mytilus galloprovincialis, are well-established sentinel species,
being naturally resistant to the exposure to multiple xenobiotics of natural and …

Urban and hospital-sourced pharmaceuticals are continuously discharged into aquatic
environments, threatening biota. To date, their impact as single compounds has been widely …

Simple Summary Mussels accumulate trace elements in their soft tissues to levels several
orders of magnitude higher than in the environment. For this reason, they are regarded as …

Mussels are widely used to monitor trace element pollution, but the role of their sex and
sexual maturation in the element accumulation was not comprehensively studied and the …

Biomonitoring is an effective way to assess the effects of pollutants on marine ecosystems.
As an important fishing region in China, the Chinese Bohai Sea has been contaminated with …

In this study, we analyzed contaminant levels in mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) farmed
into the waters of the Gulf of Naples and Domitio littoral (Italy), areas heavily influenced by …