Levels of selected persistent organic pollutants in blood from delivering women in seven selected areas of São Paulo State, Brazil

• Published in: Environment International
• Main Authors: Rudge, Cibele V. C., Sandanger, Torkjel, Roellin, Halina B., Calderon, Iracema M. P., Volpato, Gustavo, Silva, Joao L. P., Duarte, Geraldo, Neto, Corintio M., Sass, Nelson, Nakamura, Mary U., Odland, Jon O., Rudge, Marilza V. C.
• Other Authors: Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Univ Tromso, Norwegian Inst Air Res, S African MRC, Univ Pretoria, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Hosp & Matern Leonor Mendes de Barros, Matern Vila Nova Cachoeirinha, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V. 2012
• Subjects: Pesticides exposure; Delivering women; Human blood; São Paulo State; Brazil; Arctic; Barros; Norway; Tromso; AMAP; University of Tromso
• Online Access: http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/34757; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2011.07.006

Persistent organic pollutants (POPS) present in the living environment are thought to have detrimental health effects on the population, with pregnant women and the developing foetus being at highest risk. We report on the levels of selected POPs in maternal blood of 155 delivering women residing in...