Surveillance of polychlorinated biphenyl congeneric patterns in human breast milk from 1973 to 2000 in Osaka, Japan

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 38-44

  Konishi, Yoshimasa ^a   Kitagawa, Mikiya ^a   Akutsu, Kazuhiko ^a   Tanaka, Yukio ^a  

^a OSAKA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Congener; Contamination; Human breast milk; Polychlorinated biphenyl

Indexed keywords

BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREEZING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 33645233450     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1265/ehpm.11.38     Document Type: Article

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