Levels and profiles of brominated and chlorinated contaminants in human breast milk from Thessaloniki, Greece

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 539, Issue , 2016, Pages 350-358

  Dimitriadou, Lida ^a   Malarvannan, Govindan ^b   Covaci, Adrian ^b   Iossifidou, Eleni ^c   Tzafettas, John ^d,e   Zournatzi Koiou, Vassiliki ^d   Kalantzi, Olga Ioanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^e Interbalkan Medical Center of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brominated flame retardants; Greece; Health risk; Human breast milk; Infants; POPs; Thessaloniki

Indexed keywords

FLAME RETARDANTS; HEALTH RISKS; ISOMERS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANTS; GREECE; HUMAN BREAST MILKS; INFANTS; POPS; THESSALONIKI;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; 2,2',4,4'-TETRABROMODIPHENYL ETHER; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE; FLAME RETARDANT; HEXABROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER 153; LINDANE; POLLUTANT; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYL;

BIOACCUMULATION; BROMINE COMPOUND; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH RISK; INFANT FEEDING; MILK; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CHILD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GREECE; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIPARA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTION; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORK ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; METABOLISM; POLLUTANT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; GREECE; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA];

ADULT; CHLORDAN; DDT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FLAME RETARDANTS; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LINDANE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MILK, HUMAN; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

EID: 84941312462     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.08.137     Document Type: Article

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