Estimated exposure to arsenic in breastfed and formula-fed infants in a United States Cohort

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 500-506

  Carignan, Courtney C ^a,b   Cottingham, Kathryn L ^a,b   Jackson, Brian P ^a,b   Farzan, Shohreh F ^a,c   Gandolfi, A Jay ^d   Punshon, Tracy ^a,b   Folt, Carol L ^a,b   Karagas, Margaret R ^a,c  

^a Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Center at Dartmouth   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; DRINKING WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; URINALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; CHEMISTRY; NEW HAMPSHIRE; NEWBORN; UNITED STATES;

ARSENIC; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; NEW HAMPSHIRE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929457827     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408789     Document Type: Article

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