(Return matching records with ALLANY of these words.)    ................................................................ state Choose State Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illiniois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississipi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming District of Columbia    regions Choose region Pacific Southwest Midwest Southeast Northeast Mountain-Prairie Alaska California-Nevada All Regions    ................................................................ ................................................................ Journal Entry   Back Research may reduce need to trap mink for contaminant studies Midwest Region, January 31, 2008 Print Friendly Version In the future, researchers may be able to determine the level exposure of wild mink to dioxin-like compounds without trapping mink and taking tissue samples, relying rather on collection of scat. Researchers at Michigan State University, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and private companies worked cooperatively to conduct a laboratory feeding study that compared concentrations of dioxin-like polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) in the diet, tissues, and scat of mink fed a range of doses of the compounds for up to six months. Although most of the PCDFs ingested where either incorporated into tissues or metabolized, the concentrations in the scat were closely correlated with those in both the diet and tissues of the mink. The research results were recently published in the online edition of Archives of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Contact Info: Midwest Region Public Affairs, 612-713-5313, charles_traxler@fws.gov Send to: From: Notes: ..........................................................................................

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