Dietary exposure to PCBs and dioxins in children.
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Dietary exposure to PCBs and dioxins in children.
Dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent environmental contaminants that bioaccumulate up the food chain (1-3). Human exposure is largely via microcontamination of animal products in the diet (4-72. Lactational transfer is a major route of exposure to the nursing infant (8,9); approximately 10-12% of total lifetime exposure can occur via nursing (10). A nursing infant may rec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.107-1566291