Characterization and quantification of chlordecone elimination in ewes

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Saint-Hilaire, Maïlie | Fourcot, Aurore | Bousquet-Mélou, Alain | Rychen, Guido | Thomé, Jean-Pierre | Parinet, Julien | Feidt, Cyril | Fournier, Agnès

Edité par CCSD ; Elsevier -

International audience. To reduce the exposure of the French West Indies population to the organochlorine insecticide chlordecone (Kepone; CLD), the contamination of currently consumed foodstuffs must be reduced. Depuration of contaminated animals before slaughter could be a strategy to obtain safe animal products. The aim of this study was to characterize and quantify CLD elimination in contaminated ewes during depuration process. Experiments A and B consisted in a single intravenous (i.v.) administration of CLD (n = 5) and CLDOH (chlordecol; n = 3) followed by a 84-d and 3-d depuration period respectively with collection of blood, faeces and urine samples. After CLD administration, CLD and conjugated-CLDOH (CLDOH-C) were quantified in serum and urine and CLD and CLDOH were quantified in faeces. Based on calculations of faecal, urinary and body clearances of CLD and CLDOH-C, faeces appeared as the major route of CLD excretion with 86 % of the CLD administered dose eliminated in faeces, either as CLD (51 %) or as CLDOH (35 %).

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