Exposure of young mothers and newborns to organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in Guangzhou, China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 3133-3138

  Qu, Weiyue ^a,b   Suri, Rominder P S ^b   Bi, Xinhui ^a   Sheng, Guoying ^a,c   Fu, Jiamo ^a,c  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b Temple University   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; DDTs; Exposure; Guangzhou; HCHs; Human milk; Maternal blood; Metabolites; Organochlorine pesticides; Umbilical cord blood

Indexed keywords

DDTS; EXPOSURE; GUANGZHOU; HUMAN MILK; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; BIOMOLECULES; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; ISOMERS; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; PESTICIDES;

BLOOD;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHANE; 1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; BETA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; LINDANE; LIPID; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; PESTICIDE;

BLOOD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DDD; DDE; DDT; HCH; LIPID; METABOLITE; MILK; ORGANOCHLORINE; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST MILK; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INDIA; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MATERNAL BLOOD; METABOLITE; NEWBORN; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; ADULT; TOXICITY;

ADULT; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; INFANT, NEWBORN; PESTICIDES;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU;

EID: 77953727166     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.04.023     Document Type: Article

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