Biomonitoring polybrominated diphenyl ethers in human milk as a function of environment, dietary intake, and demographics in New Hampshire

Chemosphere

Volumn 80, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1175-1182

  Dunn, Rebecca L ^a   Huwe, Janice K ^b   Carey, Gale B ^c  

^a KEENE STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Brominated flame retardants; Depuration; Human milk; PBDEs; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; ETHERS; FLAME RETARDANTS; NUTRITION; SURVEYS;

BIOMONITORING; BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANTS; DEPURATION; HUMAN MILK; PBDES; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES);

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; SATURATED FATTY ACID;

AGE CLASS; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMONITORING; BREASTFEEDING; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPURATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; LACTATION; LIPID; MILK; PBDE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENT; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; FRUIT; HOME; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; LACTATION; PUERPERIUM; QUESTIONNAIRE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES;

NEW HAMPSHIRE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955426396     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.06.017     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Allen J.G., McLean M.D., Stapleton H.M., Nelson J.W., Webster T.F. Personal exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in residential indoor air. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2007, 41:4574-4579.
2. Allen J.G., McClean M.D., Stapleton H.M., Webster T.F. Linking PBDEs in house dust to consumer products using X-ray fluorescence. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2008, 42:4222-4228.
3. Bromine Science and Environmental Forum, 2000. An Introduction to Brominated Flame Retardants. (accessed 15.06.07). http://www.ebfrip/org/download/weeeqa.pdf.
4. Chao H.R., Wang S.L., Lee W.J., Wang Y.F., Päpke O. Levels of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in breast milk from central Taiwan and their relation to infant birth outcome and maternal menstruation effects. Environ. Int. 2007, 33:239-245.
5. Devine C.M., Bove C.F., Olson C.M. Continuity and change in women's weight orientations and lifestyle practices through pregnancy and the postpartum period: the influence of life course trajectories and transitional events. Soc. Sci. Med. 2000, 50:567-582.
6. Fängström, B., Strid, A., Grandjean, P., Weihe, P., Bergman, Å., 2005. A retrospective study of PBDEs and PCBs in human milk from the Faroe Islands. Environ. Health doi: (14.07.05). doi:10.1186/1476-069X-4-12.
7. Fraser A.J., Webster T.F., McClean M.D. Diet contributes significantly to the body burden of PBDEs in the general US population. Environ. Health Perspect. 2009, 117:1520-1525.
8. George G.C., Hanss-Nuss H., Milani T.J., Freeland-Graves J.H. Food choices of low income women during pregnancy & postpartum. J. Am. Diet. Assoc. 2005, 105:899-907.
9. Geyer H.J., Schramm K.W., Darnerud P.O., Aune M., Feicht E.A., Fried K.W., Henkelmann B., Lenoir D., Schmid P., McDonald T. Terminal elimination half-lives of the brominated flame retardants TBBPA, HBCD, and lower brominated PBDEs in humans. Organohalogen Compd. 2004, 66:3820-3825.
10. Hooper K., She J., Sharp M., Chow J., Jewell N., Gephart R., Holden A. Depuration of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in breast milk from California first-time mothers (Primiparae). Environ. Health Perspect. 2007, 115:1271-1275.
11. Huwe J.K., Larsen G.L. Polychlorinated dioxins, furans, and biphenyls, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in a US meat market basket and estimates of dietary intake. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2005, 39:5606-5611.
12. Huwe J.K., Smith D.J. Accumulation, whole-body depletion, and debromination of decabromodiphenyl ether in male Sprague-Dawley rate following dietary exposure. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2007, 41:2371-2377.
13. Ingelido A.M., Ballard T., Dellatte E., di Domenico A., Ferri F., Fulgenzi A.R., Herrmann T., Iacovella N., Miniero R., Päpke O., Grazia Porpora M., De Felip E. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in milk from Italian women living in Rome and Venice. Chemosphere 2007, 67:S301-S306.
14. Jones-Otazo H.A., Clarke J.P., Diamond M.R., Archbold J.A., Ferguson G., Harner T., Richardson G.M., Ryan J.J., Wilford B. Is house dust the missing exposure pathway for PBDEs? An analysis of the urban fate and human exposure to PBDEs. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2005, 39:5121-5130.
15. La Guardia M.J., Hale R.C., Harvey E. Detailed polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) congener composition of the widely used penta-, octa-, and deca-PBDE technical flame-retardant mixtures. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2006, 40:6247-6254.
16. LaKind J.S., Berlin C.M., Sjödin A., Turner W., Wang R.Y., Needham L.L., Paul I.M., Stokes J.L., Naiman D.Q., Patterson D.G. Do human milk concentrations of persistent organic chemicals really decline during lactation? Chemical concentrations during lactation and milk/serum partitioning. Environ. Health Perspect. 2009, 117:1625-1631.
17. Lilienthal H., Hack A., Roth-Härer A., Wichert Grande S., Talsness C.E. Effects of developmental exposure to 2,2',4,4',5-pentabromodiphenyl ether (PBDE-99) on sex steroids, sexual development, and sexually dimorphic behavior in rats. Environ. Health Perspect. 2006, 114:194-201.
18. Main K.M., Kiviranta H., Virtanen H.E., Sundqvist E., Tuomisto J.T., Tuomisto J., Vartiainen T., Skakkebæk N.E., Toppari J. Flame retardants in placenta and breast milk and cryptorchidism in newborn boys. Environ. Health Perspect. 2007, 115:1519-1526.
19. Needham L.L., Wang R.Y. Analytic considerations for measuring environmental chemicals in breast milk. Environ. Health Perspect. 2002, 110:A317-A324.
20. Ohta S., Ishizuka D., Nishimura H., Nakao T., Aozasa O., Shimidzu Y., Ochiai F., Kida T., Nishi M., Miyata H. Comparison of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in fish, vegetables, and meats, and levels in human milk of nursing women in Japan. Chemosphere 2002, 46:689-696.
21. Patterson R.E., Kristal A.R., Fels Tinker L., Carter R.A., Bolton M.P., Agurs-Collins T. Measurement characteristics of the Women's Health Initiative food frequency questionnaire. Ann. Epidemiol. 1999, 9:178-187.
22. Ryan, J.J., 1991. Method 2: Extraction of human and cows' milk samples for the determination of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and dibenzofurans. In: Rappe, C., Buser, H.R., Dodet, B., O'Neill, I.K. (Eds.), Environmental Carcinogens Methods of Analysis & Exposure Measurement: Polychlorinated Dioxins and Dibenzofurans. International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France, pp. 205-209.
23. Schecter A., Päpke O., Tung K.C., Staskal D., Birnbaum L. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers contamination of United States food. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2004, 38:5306-5311.
24. Schecter A., Harris T.R., Päpke O., Tung K.C., Musumba A. Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) levels in the blood of pure vegetarians. Toxicol. Environ. Chem. 2006, 88:107-112.
25. Schecter A., Haffner D., Colacino J., Patel K., Päpke O., Opel M., Birnbaum L. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and hexabromocyclodecane (HBCD) in composite US food samples. Environ. Health Perspect. 2010, 118:357-362.
26. She J., Petreas M., Winkler J., Visita P., McKinney M., Kopec D. PBDEs in the San Francisco bay area: measurements in harbor seal blubber and human breast adipose tissue. Chemosphere 2002, 46:697-707.
27. She J., Holden A., Sharp M., Tanner M., Williams-Derry C., Hooper K. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in breast milk from the Pacific Northwest. Chemosphere 2007, 67:S307-S317.
28. Sjödin A., Wong L., Jones R.S., Park A., Zhang Y., Hodge C., Dipietro E., McClure C., Turner W., Needham L.L., Patterson D.G. Serum concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) in the United States population: 2003-2004. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2008, 42:1377-1384.
29. US Environmental Protection Agency, 2003. Draft Method 1614: Brominated Diphenyl Ethers in Water, Soil, Sediment, and Tissue by HRGC/HRMS. (accessed 20.04.05). http://www.accustandard.com/asi/epa_downloads.php3.
30. Viberg H., Johansson N., Fredriksson A., Eriksson J., Marsh G., Eriksson P. Neonatal exposure to higher brominated diphenyl ethers, hepta-, octa-, or nonabromodiphenyl ether, impairs spontaneous behavior and learning and memory functions of adult mice. Toxicol. Sci. 2006, 92:211-218.
31. Willet W. Nutritional Epidemiology 1990, Oxford University Press, New York.
32. Wu N., Herrmann T., Paepke O., Tickner J., Hale R., Harvey E., La Guardia M., McClean M.D., Webster T.F. Human exposure to PBDEs: associations of PBDE body burdens with food consumption and house dust concentrations. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2007, 41:1584-1589.
33. Zhou T., Ross D.G., DeVito M.J., Crofton K.M. Effects of short-term in vivo exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers on thyroid hormones and hepatic enzymes activities in weanling rats. Toxicol. Sci. 2001, 61:76-82.
34. Zhu L., Baoling M., Jingguang L., Wu Y., Gong J. Distribution of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in breast milk from North China: implication of exposure pathways. Chemosphere 2009, 74:1429-1434.