Contamination of Organic Sulfur Compounds in Marine Products

Abstract

Authors selected sulfur compounds usually contained in oil as indicator for the study of oil pollution in marine products.It was found by FPD-GC analysis that marine products, especially fresh oyster contains similar type of sulfur compounds as found in crude oil. Sulfur compounds contained both in crude oil and oyster were isolated by the combination of two different chromatography and identified as dibenzothiophene derivatives.Thus organic sulfur compounds are considered to be a good parameter for oil pollution in marine products.This finding suggestes that these contamination of oil components in oyster are due to oil spill or dump out.As an another method for studying oil pollution or spill, high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) technique appears to be also applicable for the comparison of heterocyclic aromatic compounds such as dibenzothiophene derivatives isolated from different sources.