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Contaminants in seafood dataset in support of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) Descriptor 9 (D09C01, 2018 Reporting)

This dataset is part of the 2018 Belgian submission for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) linked to descriptor 9, criterion 1. The dataset contains the results of analyses on raw fish, mollusk and crustacean samples originating from the southern North Sea and the Channel and taken as part of the control programme by the Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain. The analyzed substances are metals (cadmium, mercury and lead), dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs, PCBs, PAHs, Cesium 134 and Cesium 137.

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Date (Creation)
2018-09-07
Date (Revision)
2021-12-08
Date (Publication)
2025-12-12
Title

Digital Object Identifier

Date (Creation)
2016-05-19
Code
https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2033
Citation identifier
http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / bmdc.be:dataset:2033

Belgian Marine Data Centre

Other citation details

This dataset is composed of the following sources: (1) De Cauwer Karien, Vromman Valerie (2018). Contaminants in seafood. (2) GIS layer for bmdc_be_dataset_2033 (MSFD).

Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)

bmdc@naturalsciences.be

Custodian

Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain - Directorate Control Policy

secrcom@favv.be

Author

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)

info@naturalsciences.be

Owner

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)

info@naturalsciences.be

Publisher

Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models (MUMM)

mumm@naturalsciences.be

Author
Keywords
  • Oceanographic geographical features
  • Reporting INSPIRE

  • Federal government

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Oceanographic geographical features
European Legislation Identifier
  • Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use (Text with EEA relevance)
Marine Regions
  • Belgian part of the North Sea
  • Greater North Sea, incl. the Kattegat and the English Channel
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1
  • marine pollution
  • marine monitoring
  • pollution monitoring
  • Marine Strategy Framework Directive
INSPIRE Registry: Priority Datasets
  • Directive 2008/56/EC
Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium
  • Health
NERC Vocabulary Server - C45 Vocabulary version 3.0
  • Contaminants in seafood do not exceed established levels
INSPIRE Registry: feature concepts
  • Oceanographic Geographical Features
INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope
  • National
Eionet Central Data Repository
  • (Criteria) D9C1 - Contaminants in seafood
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No conditions apply to access and use
Other constraints
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations on public access.
Use limitation

No conditions apply to use.

Classification
Unclassified
Spatial representation type
Vector
Language
English
Topic category
  • Oceans
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gml32:beginPosition
2012-01-01
gml32:endPosition
2016-12-31
Reference system identifier
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
Distribution format
Name Version

application/xml

Unknown

application/vnd.ms-excel

Unknown

Distributor

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)

bmdc@naturalsciences.be

Custodian
Distributor format
Name Version

application/xml

Unknown

Transfer size
0.063707
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

OGC:WMS

http://wms.ngi.be/inspire/rbins/service?version=1.3.0&service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities

rbins:xy20181012_1231240516006072_contaminants_seafood

Distributor

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)

bmdc@naturalsciences.be

Custodian
Distributor format
Name Version

application/xml

Unknown

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

OGC:WFS

http://wms.ngi.be/inspire/rbins/service?version=2.0.0&service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities

rbins:xy20181012_1231240516006072_contaminants_seafood

Distributor

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)

bmdc@naturalsciences.be

Custodian
Distributor format
Name Version

application/vnd.ms-excel

Unknown

Transfer size
0.108136
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://www.bmdc.be/NODC/ditsAttach/datasource/6072/20181012_1231240516006072_Contaminants_seafood.xlsx

Contaminants in seafood. De Cauwer Karien, Vromman Valerie

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

DOI

https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2033

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Title
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Pass
Yes
Statement

Data on contaminants in seafood are gathered by AFSCA-FAVV, and are presented to BMDC as excel files. These files are made available via this metadata record without any change.

Metadata

File identifier
bmdc.be:dataset:2033 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-12-12T16:12:47.504Z
Metadata standard name

Geographic information -- Metadata

Metadata standard version

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)

bmdc@naturalsciences.be

Point of contact
Other language
Language Character encoding
Dutch; Flemish
French
English
German
 
 

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Keywords

Eionet Central Data Repository

(Criteria) D9C1 - Contaminants in seafood
European Legislation Identifier

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use (Text with EEA relevance)
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1

Marine Strategy Framework Directive marine monitoring marine pollution pollution monitoring
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Oceanographic geographical features
INSPIRE Registry: Priority Datasets

Directive 2008/56/EC
INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope

National
INSPIRE Registry: feature concepts

Oceanographic Geographical Features
NERC Vocabulary Server - C45 Vocabulary version 3.0

Contaminants in seafood do not exceed established levels
Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium

Health


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