Certain organochlorine and organobromine contaminants in Swedish human milk in perspective of past 20-30 years

Chemosphere

Volumn 40, Issue 9-11, 2000, Pages 1111-1123

  Norén, Koidu ^a   Meironyté, Daiva ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Flame retardant; Methylsulfonyl metabolites; PBDE; PCB; PCDD; PCDF; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOBROMINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DRUG ACCUMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT FEEDING; MILK LEVEL; NORMAL HUMAN; POLLUTANT; POPULATION EXPOSURE; POPULATION RISK; SWEDEN;

BENZOFURANS; BROMINE COMPOUNDS; DDT; DICHLORODIPHENYL DICHLOROETHYLENE; DIELDRIN; FEMALE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; INSECTICIDES; MILK, HUMAN; NAPHTHALENES; PHENYL ETHERS; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SWEDEN; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EID: 0034002836     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(99)00360-4     Document Type: Article

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