Health risks to infants from exposure to PCBs, PCDDs and PCDFs

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 325-333

  Feeley, Mark ^a   Brouwer, Abraham ^b  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Breast feeding; In utero; Neurological development; Thyroid hormones

Indexed keywords

DIOXIN; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; THYROID HORMONE;

AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD POISONING; HEALTH HAZARD; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTHER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE LEVEL;

EID: 0034045705     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: 14645122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026520300283397     Document Type: Article

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