Assessing infant exposure to persistent organic pollutants via dietary intake in Australia
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Assessing infant exposure to persistent organic pollutants via dietary intake in Australia.
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) including polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs); organochlorine pesticides (OCPs); and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) persist in the environment, bioaccumulate, and pose a risk of causing adverse human health effects. Typically, exposure assessments undertaken by modeling existing intake data underestimate the concentrations of these chemicals in infants....
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عنوان ژورنال: Food and Chemical Toxicology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0278-6915
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2015.12.018