Dioxins and related compounds in human breast milk collected around open dumping sites in Asian developing countries: Bovine milk as a potential source

• Main Authors: Kunisue, Tatsuya, Watanabe, Mafumi, Iwata, H., Subramanian, Annamalai, Monirith, I., Minh, T. B., Baburajendran, R., Tana, Touch S., Viet, P. H., Prudente, Maricar, Tanabe, Shinsuke
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2004
• Subjects: Breast milk—Contamination; Bovine somatotropin; Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3263
• Institution: De La Salle University

In this study, concentrations of dioxins and related compounds (DRCs)-such as polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans, and coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls-were found in human breast milk from women living near dumping sites of municipal waste and reference sites in India,...