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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2015

Spatial and temporal trends of the Stockholm Convention POPs in mothers' milk -- a global review.

Johan Fång, Elisabeth Nyberg, Ulrika Winnberg, Anders Bignert, Åke Bergman

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Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 116 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Johan FångDepartment of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, fangsten@yahoo.se.
Elisabeth Nyberg
Ulrika Winnberg
Anders Bignert
Åke Bergman
Stockholm University · SESwedish Museum of Natural History · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been of environmental and health concern for more than half a century and have their own intergovernmental regulation through the Stockholm Convention, from 2001. One major concern is the nursing child's exposure to POPs, a concern that has led to a very large number of scientific studies on POPs in mothers' milk. The present review is a report on the assessment on worldwide spatial distributions of POPs and of their temporal trends. The data presented herein is a compilation based on scientific publications between 1995 and 2011. It is evident that the concentrations in mothers' milk depend on the use of pesticides and industrial chemicals defined as POPs. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and "dioxins" are higher in the more industrialized areas, Europe and Northern America, whereas pesticides are higher in Africa and Asia and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are reported in higher concentrations in the USA. POPs are consequently distributed to women in all parts of the world and are thus delivered to the nursing child. The review points out several major problems in the reporting of data, which are crucial to enable high quality comparisons. Even though the data set is large, the comparability is hampered by differences in reporting. In conclusion, much more detailed instructions are needed for reporting POPs in mothers' milk. Temporal trend data for POPs in mothers' milk is scarce and is of interest when studying longer time series. The only two countries with long temporal trend studies are Japan and Sweden. In most cases, the trends show decreasing concentrations of POPs in mothers' milk. However, hexabromocyclododecane is showing increasing temporal concentration trends in both Japan and Sweden.

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Environmental MonitoringDioxinsEnvironmental PollutantsFemaleGlobal HealthHalogenated Diphenyl EthersHazardous SubstancesHumansMilk, HumanPesticidesPolychlorinated BiphenylsTime FactorsDioxinsEnvironmental PollutantsHalogenated Diphenyl EthersHazardous SubstancesPesticidesPolychlorinated Biphenyls

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PMID25913228
PMCPMC4473027
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