Organic Food Chain

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
OFC
Pronunciation
/ɔrˈgænɪk fud ʧeɪn/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Food & Nutrition

Examples in Context

  1. Some sediment pollutants, especially the refractory organic pollutants can be bioaccumulated through the food chain and pose health risks to wildlife and human consumers.
  2. However, untreated water may also contain high amounts of organic pollutants or heavy metals, which can enter the food chain directly through irrigation.
  3. Mercury is an important pollutant because its organic compounds have strong neurotoxicity and high enrichment in organisms through food chain, exerting serious threat to human health.
  4. Studies on the absorption, enrichment, metabolism of important organic pollutants and toxins of seaweeds by marine organisms in transport through food chain, ecological effect and ecological monitoring;
  5. Hg2 + can be converted to organic mercury by methylation and accumulated in the animal and human body through the food chain, posing a threat to human and animal health.

Other meanings of OFC