Infant and Young Child Feeding and Chemical Residues
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“Given that breastfeeding reduces child mortality and has benefits that extend into adulthood, every effort has been made to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in the context of these studies [...] Human milk though still the best food for infants has been unintentionally compromised by unwelcome chemicals from our environment, as a result of eating, drinking and living in a technologically advanced, but polluted, world. However, the mere presence of an environmental chemical in human milk does not necessarily indicate that a serious health risk exists for breastfed infants. Few, if any, adverse effects have been documented as associated solely with consumption of human milk containing background levels of environmental chemicals, and none have been clinically or epidemiologically demonstrated. Only in very rare situations involving high levels of pollution have effects on infants occurred through human milk consumption. In contrast, epidemiological studies have demonstrated that human milk and the practice of breastfeeding confer significant measurable health benefits to infants and to nursing mothers.” 2
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