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Residual congener pattern of dioxins in human breast milk in southern Vietnam
- Source :
- Chemosphere. 84:979-986
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2011.
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Abstract
- This study evaluated residual congener patterns of dioxin/furan (=PCDD/DF) related to tactical herbicides aerially sprayed over the regions of southern Vietnam through Operation Ranch Hand. The study focused on Cam Chinh (CC) commune, Quang Tri province (an area sprayed with tactical herbicides), and the Cam Phuc (CP) commune, Ha Tinh province (a non-sprayed area). Breast milk samples for analysis were collected in September 2002 and July 2003 from lactating primiparous and multiparous mothers born after the war (
- Subjects :
- Adult
Breast milk
Pentachlorophenol
Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins
Environmental Engineering
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins
Context (language use)
Dioxins
Young Adult
chemistry.chemical_compound
Animal science
Agent Orange
Humans
Environmental Chemistry
Benzofurans
Chlorophenol
Milk, Human
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
General Medicine
General Chemistry
Dibenzofurans, Polychlorinated
HEXA
Pollution
PCDD/DFs
Congener
Vietnam
chemistry
Maternal Exposure
Environmental chemistry
Environmental Pollutants
Female
Residual congener pattern
Environmental Monitoring
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00456535
- Volume :
- 84
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Chemosphere
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....708f40dbfa89be518b40ba19d686bd10