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High Levels of PCBs in Breast Milk of Inuit Women from Arctic Quebec

1989

Dewailly, É., Nantel, A., Weber, J.-P., & Meyer, F.

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This study aimed to assess levels of PCB in the breast milk of lactating Inuit women from northern Quebec compared to women from southern Quebec. The level of PCBs in the breast milk of Inuit women was almost five times that of the Caucasian women from southern Quebec.

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High Levels of PCBs in Breast Milk of Inuit Women from Arctic Quebec.

Dewailly, É., Nantel, A., Weber, J.-P., & Meyer, F. (1989). High levels of PCBs in breast milk of Inuit women from Arctic Quebec. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology, 43, 641-646.

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