Breastfeeding: A potential excretion route for mothers and implications for infant exposure to perfluoroalkyl acids

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 187-192

  Mondal, Debapriya ^a,b   Weldon, Rosana Hernandez ^c   Armstrong, Ben G ^a   Gibson, Lorna J ^a   Lopez Espinosa, Maria Jose ^a,d   Shin, Hyeong Moo ^e   Fletcher, Tony ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERFLEXANE; PERFLUORONONANOIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CHILD; DRUG EXCRETION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AGE FACTORS; ALKANESULFONIC ACIDS; BREAST FEEDING; CAPRYLATES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; LONDON; MILK, HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRES; SULFONIC ACIDS;

EID: 84893357065     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1306613     Document Type: Article

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