2002
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.021100313
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Chemical contaminants in breast milk and their impacts on children's health: an overview.

Abstract: Human milk is the best source of nutrition for infants. Breast milk contains the optimal balance of fats, carbohydrates, and proteins for developing babies, and it provides a range of benefits for growth, immunity, and development. Unfortunately, breast milk is not pristine. Contamination of human milk is widespread and is the consequence of decades of inadequately controlled pollution of the environment by toxic chemicals. The finding of toxic chemicals in breast milk raises important issues for pediatric pra… Show more

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“…Contamination of human milk is widespread and is the consequence of decades of inadequately controlled pollution of the environment by toxic chemicals. The finding of toxic chemicals in breast milk raises important issues for pediatric practice, for the practice of public health, and for the environmental health research community (Landrigan et al 2002).…”
Section: Breast Milk -The Best Source Of Infant Nutritionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Contamination of human milk is widespread and is the consequence of decades of inadequately controlled pollution of the environment by toxic chemicals. The finding of toxic chemicals in breast milk raises important issues for pediatric practice, for the practice of public health, and for the environmental health research community (Landrigan et al 2002).…”
Section: Breast Milk -The Best Source Of Infant Nutritionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Additionally, to assess health outcomes of toxic exposures via breast milk, it will be necessary to examine children prospectively over many years in longitudinal epidemiologic studies that use standardized examination protocols that specifically assess breast milk exposures. Finally, current risk assessment methods need to be expanded to include consideration of the potential risks posed to infants and children by exposure to chemical residues in breast milk (Landrigan et al 2002).…”
Section: Breast Milk -The Best Source Of Infant Nutritionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Unfortunately, it is often contaminated with toxic pollutants including especially the lipophilic POPs (Landrigan et al, 2002). The POP levels in milk can reflect a maternal body burden, thus providing a means of estimating the intake of these substances by the breast-fed infant.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This information is necessary for performing exposure assessments without heavy reliance on default assumptions. Landrigan et al (2002) thus called for "a carefully planned and conducted national breast milk monitoring effort in the United States" to provide the information needed to assess infant exposures through breast-feeding and to develop scientifically sound information on the benefits and risks thereof.…”
Section: Other Potential Biospecimens For Home Collectionmentioning
confidence: 99%