Pollutants emitted thousands of miles away have accumulated in the bodies of seals, whales and other animals of the northern Bering Sea that Indigenous people depend on for food, according to a new study. (via AlaskaBeacon)
PBDEs are a class of compounds used as flame retardants. PFAS compounds are also used for that purpose but are found in a wide variety of consumer products such as cosmetics, clothing and cookware; they are known as “forever chemicals” because they do not break down in the environment. PBDEs have been phased out in the United States since 2004, but there is no national PFAS ban.
Pam Miller, executive director of Alaska Community Action on Toxics, and Vi Waghiyi, the organization’s environmental health and justice program director, hold up a photo of the late Annie Alowi, a health aide from the St. Lawrence Island community of Savoonga who spurred studies of contaminants from local and long-range pollutants. Miller and Waghiyi are co-authors of a study that examined contaminants found in marine mammals and reindeer that the Yup’ik people of St.
The St. Lawrence Island findings are, in some ways, similar to those of other studies of contaminants in animals around the Arctic. Walrus meat dries on a rack in Gambell, one of the two communities on St. Lawrence Island, in 2005. Walruses were among the animals tested in a study that traced persistent pollutants in the Bering Sea environment.
While this newly published study focuses on pollutants that are carried long distances in the air and in the ocean, other work in the program is continuing to examine the effects of pollution fromA Bering Sea bearded seal displays its distinctive whiskers. A study of animals hunted by St. Lawrence Island’s Indigenous people found that the highest levels of flame-retardant chemicals were generally in seals.
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