In 1991 considerable controversy surrounded a report that summarized the rapidly
accumulating scientific literature on the effects of chemical contaminants in women and their …

The presence of environmental contaminant chemicals in human milk, their demonstrated
toxicity, and the lack of data in human beings led to the North Carolina Breast Milk and …

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which are used commercially, are common contaminants
that eventually, through the food chain, become incorporated in human food. They are not …

All chemicals that are not normal constituents of human milk should be considered
undesirable contaminants. In the present review, the following substances detected in …

Parents of newborn infants have many decisions to make that affect the health and well-
being of their infants, including whether the mother should breastfeed. A mother may have …

Objective: To review data on the occurrence and toxicity of the commonly reported
pesticides and industrial environmental pollutant chemicals in breast milk. Data Sources …

In the current issue of the Journal, studies of breast milk of nursing mothers in Michigan
illustrate the ubiquity and magnitude of human contamination with polychlorinated biphenyls …

Reports of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination of human milk have raised
questions about the possible risks of breast-feeding and whether nursing mothers ought to …

As a consequence of contamination by effluents from local electronics manufacturing
facilities, the New Bedford Harbor and estuary in southeastern Massachusetts is among the …

This article details the events leading up to the Michigan Dep. of Public Health (DPH)
advisory on breast feeding (Dec. 1976) and the process used to develop the position taken …