Environmental Chemicals in Breast Milk and Formula: Exposure and Risk Assessment Implications

• Published in: Environmental health perspectives Vol. 126; no. 9; p. 96001
• Main Authors: Lehmann, Geniece M., LaKind, Judy S., Davis, Matthew H., Hines, Erin P., Marchitti, Satori A., Alcala, Cecilia, Lorber, Matthew
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 01.09.2018; Environmental Health Perspectives
• Subjects: Automation; Babies; Baby foods; Benchmarks; Breast; Breast milk; Breastfeeding & lactation; Chemicals; Children; Contamination; Developmental stages; Dietary Exposure - analysis; Dioxins; Disruption; Drug dosages; Environmental Exposure - analysis; Environmental health; Environmental Pollutants - analysis; Exposure; Female; Flame retardants; Food and nutrition; Health aspects; Health risk assessment; Health risks; Humans; Infant; Infant Formula - analysis; Infant formulas; Infant, Newborn; Infants; Information systems; Laboratory animals; Maternal Exposure; Methods; Milk; Milk, Human - chemistry; Organic chemistry; Personal grooming; Pesticides; Pharmaceuticals; Phenols; Pollutants; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers; Response data analysis; Review; Risk Assessment; VOCs; Volatile organic compounds; United States

Human health risk assessment methods have advanced in recent years to more accurately estimate risks associated with exposure during childhood. However, predicting risks related to infant exposures to environmental chemicals in breast milk and formula remains challenging. Our goal was to compile ava...