Organochlorine pesticide levels in breast milk in Guerrero, Mexico
| Autor: | Stefan M. Waliszewski, Mario Alberto Alarcón-Romero, Jesús Antonio Díaz-Ortiz, Luis Alberto Chávez-Almazán, Gustavo Davila-Vazquez, Hugo Saldarriaga-Noreña |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Chronic exposure
Adult Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Dichlorodiphenyl Dichloroethylene Population Breast milk Biology Toxicology DDT Animal science Age groups Ecotoxicology Humans Pesticides education Human breast milk Mexico education.field_of_study Milk Human Organochlorine pesticide Agriculture General Medicine Pesticide Pollution Environmental chemistry Environmental Pollutants Female Hexachlorocyclohexane |
| Zdroj: | Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology. 93(3) |
| ISSN: | 1432-0800 |
| Popis: | In Mexico, organochlorine pesticides were used in public health and agriculture programs, causing chronic exposure to the population. Human breast milk samples were collected from 171 mothers who were residents from Guerrero, Mexico. Analysis was carried out by gas chromatography. Median concentrations (mg/kg on fat basis) for the following pesticides were: HCB, 0.009; β-HCH, 0.004; pp’DDE, 0.760; op’DDT, 0.016; pp’DDT, 0.045; and Σ-DDT, 0.833. These values are lower than in other States in Mexico, and in some countries where the use of these pesticides was banned more than 30 years ago. Differences were found in HCB, pp’DDE and pp’DDT concentrations in groups divided according to age (p |
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