Human biomonitoring of PCDDs, PCDFs, and PCBs in women living in a Northern Italy industrial area

• Published in: Environmental science and pollution research international Vol. 32; no. 16; pp. 10392 - 10405
• Main Authors: Dellatte, Elena, Abate, Vittorio, Abballe, Annalisa, De Filippis, Stefania Paola, De Luca, Silvia, Ferri, Fabiola, Fulgenzi, Anna Rita, Iacovella, Nicola, Iamiceli, Anna Laura, Ingelido, Anna Maria, Marra, Valentina, Miniero, Roberto, Valentini, Silvia, Bressanelli, Maura, Schivardi, Maria Rosa, De Felip, Elena
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.04.2025; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Aquatic Pollution; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Benzofurans; Biological Monitoring; Biomonitoring; Body burden; Breast milk; Breastfeeding & lactation; chemical species; Congeners; Contaminants; Dibenzofurans, Polychlorinated; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecotoxicology; Emerging Chemical Pollution of the Planet; Environment; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Health; Environmental Monitoring; Environmental Pollutants - analysis; Exposure; Factor analysis; Female; fruits; Humans; Independent variables; Industrial areas; industrialization; Italy; Middle Aged; Milk, Human - chemistry; PCB; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Polychlorinated Biphenyls - analysis; Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins; Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins - analysis; Polychlorinated dibenzofurans; questionnaires; regression analysis; vegetable oil; Vegetable oils; Waste Water Technology; Water Management; Water Pollution Control; Italy; Exposure estimates; PCBs; Brescia; Dioxin-like PCBs; Dioxins; Human biomonitoring; Industrial area; Breast milk

In Brescia , a highly industrialized city in the Lombardy Region (Northern Italy) classified as a SIN (Contaminated Site of National Interest), a human biomonitoring study was carried out on breast milk of two groups of women residing in areas with presumably different levels of exposure to polychlo...