Breast-Feeding among Women Exposed to Polybrominated Biphenyls in Michigan
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Breast-feeding among women exposed to polybrominated biphenyls in Michigan.
In the early 1970s, the largest industrial accident in the United States resulted in widespread contamination of the food supply in Michigan with polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs). The chemical similarity of PBBs to compounds implicated as endocrine disruptors has raised the question of whether PBBs could affect the reproductive system. In the present analysis we examine the relation between seru...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0091-6765
DOI: 10.2307/3454860