1st Edition
Chemical Contaminants in Human Milk
640 Pages
by
CRC Press
640 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Chemical Contaminants in Human Milk contains a comprehensive, up-to-date global review of the contamination of human milk with environmental and occupational chemicals. The book covers many different aspects of this problem, including the extent and benefits of breast-feeding, the transfer of chemicals into breast milk, analytical methodologies used in human milk studies, the levels of chemical... Read more
Preface. List of Chemical Names and Abbreviations. EXTENT AND BENEFITS OF BREAST-FEEDING. TRANSFER OF CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS INTO HUMAN MILK. DESIGN OF HUMAN MILK STUDIES. ANALYTICAL METHODS FOR MAJOR CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS IN HUMAN MILK. LEVELS AND TRENDS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICALS IN HUMAN MILK. FACTORS AFFECTING THE LEVELS OF RESIDUES IN HUMAN MILK. OCCUPATIONAL CHEMICALS IN HUMAN MILK. ASSESSMENT OF INFANT INTAKES OF CHEMICALS VIA BREAST MILK. TOXICOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF PERSISTENT ORGANOHALOGENS IN MOTHER'S MILK AS INDICATED BY ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS. TOXICOLOGICAL IMPLICATION OF HUMAN MILK RESIDUES AS INDICATED BY TOXICOLOGICAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES. OVERALL ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION.
Biography
Allan Astrup Jensen, Stuart A. Slorach
