Williams, L., R.A. Schoof, J.W. Yager, and J.W. Goodrich-Mahoney. 2006. Arsenic bioaccumulation in freshwater fishes. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 12:904-923.
Integral Managing Scientist Les Williams, Ph.D., C.S.E. and Principal Rosalind Schoof, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., collaborated with scientists Dr. Janice Yager and John Goodrich-Mahoney from the Electric Power Research Institute in a critical review of arsenic bioaccumulation factors in freshwater fish. The team’s findings resulted in an article that was published in the October issue of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA).
Their research suggests an alternative bioaccumulation relationship, wherein the highest bioaccumulation factors may occur at low background levels and may decrease as environmental concentrations increase above the ambient range. This research may have implications for how water quality criteria for arsenic are developed in the future.