Environmental Issue And Environmental Pollution Ques 74

Question: Environmental pollutants such as PCB’s contaminate oceans and other aquatic systems. Plankton in the ocean become contaminated by PCB’s and pass this along through the food chain, A pregnant woman has been cautioned to limit her consumption of food that may be high in PCBs. If she consumes food from a nearby contaminated ocean, we would expect that the most contaminated foods would be:

Options:

A) shrimp

B) clams

C) fish that eat shrimp

D) kelp and other ocean plants

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Answer:

Correct Answer: B