Bioaccumulation
An important process through which chemicals can affect living organisms. Certain toxic substances (such as heavy metals and polychlorinated biphenyls) accumulate and keep on accumulating in living organisms, posing a threat to their health. It’s an increase in concentration of a pollutant from the environment to the first organism in a food chain (first uptake can occur at any food chain level).
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