Original scientific paper
Residues of chlorinated pesticides in mother's milk and child's serum
D. Bažulić
; Odsjek za pesticide, Zavod za zaštitu zdravlja SRH, Zagreb
D. Kipčić
; Odsjek za pesticide, Zavod za zaštitu zdravlja SRH, Zagreb
B. Štampar-Plasaj
; Odjel za nedonoščad, Klinički bolnički centar, Rebro, Zagreb
J. Jerić
; Odjel za nedonoščad, Klinički bolnički centar, Rebro, Zagreb
V. Bujanović
; Ginekološko-porođajni odjel, Opća bolnica »Dr J. Kajfeš«, Zagreb
N. Juzbašić
; Dječji dispanzer, Medicinski centar Zabok
Abstract
Milk samples obtained from 27 hospitalized lactating women and an equal number of sera from the same women were examined for residues of chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides: aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, heptachlorepoxide, lindan and other steroisomers of hexachlorcyclohexane, pp'DDT and its metabolites (pp'-DDE, pp'-DDD) and op'-DDT. Additional 18 samples of mother's sera and an equal number of their children's sera were examined separately. The aim was to find out whether there is a correlation between the pesticide residues in mother's serum and mother's milk and in the serum of the mother and her child. The insecticides were determined according to the procedure used by the US Food and Drug Administration (4). Chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides in the serum were examined with the method described by Wyllie and coworkers (5). In all samples only the presence of a-HCH, y-HCH, pp'-DDE, op'-DDT, pp'-DDD and pp'-DDT could be demonstrated. The concentration ratio between mother's milk and serum was between 4 and 11. The concentration ratio between mother's and child's serum was below 1 except for pp'-DDE and pp'-DDT.
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162185
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Publication date:
13.9.1978.
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