Partitioning behaviour of perfluorinated alkyl contaminants between water, sediment and fish in the Orge River (nearby Paris, France)

► PFC tissue distribution in European chub followed the order plasma > liver > gills > gonads > muscle. ► Kd and BAF correlated with PFC alkyl chain length. ► BSAF negatively correlated with the perfluoroalkyl chain length in the case of carboxylic acids. ► BSAF did not correlate with alkyl chain length of sulfonates.