Human exposure to polychorinated biphenyls and polybrominated biphenyls

Human exposure to polychorinated biphenyls and polybrominated biphenyls

Although the polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been used in a wide variety of industrial applications in the U. S. from 1930 until 1970, when their distribution was voluntarily restricted to closed systems, there is scant information on human exposure to adverse human health effects in the U. S. In the U. S., minimal human exposure of the population to PCBs is limited to food, air, and wate...

The human health effects of exposure to polybrominated biphenyls.

The Human Health Effects of Exposure to Polybrominated Biphenyls. STROSS, J. K., SMOKLER, I. A., ISBISTER, J., AND WILCOX, K. R. (1981). Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 58, 145-150. Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) were inadvertently introduced into the food chain in Michigan in 1973. Fifty-one people with known exposure to PBB were studied. Twenty-three farmers with disabling health complaints, and 28...

Carcinogenicity of polychlorinated biphenyls and polybrominated biphenyls.

Monograph Working Group Members V J Cogliano (USA)–Chair; K Aronson, H Tryphonas (Canada); Y L Guo (Taiwan, China); M Machala (Czech Republic); E C Bonefeld-Jørgensen, K Vorkamp (Denmark) J P Cravedi, B Le Bizec, J F Narbonne (France); H Esch (Germany); P Cocco, F Merletti (Italy); R Vermeulen (unable to attend; Netherlands); A Agudo (Spain); N Johansson (Sweden); H Fiedler, N Hopf (Switzerland...

Polybrominated biphenyls 74 Hazard assessment of Polybrominated biphenyls

Incidence of thyroid disease following exposure to polybrominated biphenyls and polychlorinated biphenyls, Michigan, 1974-2006.

Thyroid hormones, which influence body metabolism and development, could be affected by persistent organic pollutants. We sought to examine the relationship between polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and thyroid disease. We employed incidence density sampling to perform a nested case control analysis of the Michigan Long-Term PBB Cohort. Cohort members (n=3333)...