Conference paper
Organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in foods in Sweden
K. Noren
; Food and Nutrition Laboratory, National Food Administration, Stockholm
Abstract
A survey of investigations of organochlorine pesticides and PCB in foods during 1967-1972 is presented. Only occasionally did samples of vegetable foods exceed the Swedish tolerances for organochlorine pesticides. Of the animal products, fat fish from certain waters contained high levels of pesticides and PCB. The highest concentrations of DDT and metabolites were found in cod liver from the Baltic. Some samples of cereal products were contaminated with PCB from the packaging material. There is a manifest decrease in the level of dieldrin in fish from certain waters and of p,p'-DDT in human milk from the Stockholm region. The average level of PCB in the human milk has increased.
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168449
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Publication date:
19.3.1974.
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