Persistent organochlorines in human breast milk from major metropolitan cities in India

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 148-154

  Devanathan, Gnanasekaran ^a   Subramanian, Annamalai ^a   Someya, Masayuki ^a   Sudaryanto, Agus ^a   Isobe, Tomohiko ^a   Takahashi, Shin ^a   Chakraborty, Paromita ^b   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Breast milk; India; Infant health risk; Organochlorines

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONTAMINATION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RISK PERCEPTION;

BREAST MILK; DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; ESTIMATED DAILY INTAKES; HUMAN BREASTS; HUMAN MILKS; INDIA; INFANT HEALTH RISK; METROPOLITAN CITIES; NEW DELHI; ORGANOCHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ORGANOCHLORINES; VARIABLE SOURCES;

HEALTH RISKS;

CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

AGE; BREASTFEEDING; DDT; HCH; HEALTH RISK; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; METROPOLITAN AREA; MILK; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB; PERSISTENCE; POLLUTION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; INDIA; LACTATION;

ADULT; CHLORINE; CITIES; DDT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; HYDROCARBONS, HALOGENATED; INDIA; MILK, HUMAN; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

EID: 56449088224     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.07.011     Document Type: Article

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