First data on background levels of non-ortho and mono-ortho PCBs in blood of residents from southern Germany.
Blood-fat concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) congeners: no. 105, 118, 156 (mono-ortho-substituted) and no. 77, 126, 169 (non-ortho-substituted) and PCB congeners no. 28, 52, 101, 138, 153 and 180 were measured. The investigations were carried out in pooled samples from children and in individual samples from adults. Additionally polychloro-p-dibenzodioxins and -furans (PCDD/PCDF) were investigated.
Wuthe
J
J
Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Welfare Baden-Wurttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany.
Piechotowski
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I
Papke
O
O
Zier
B
B
Gabrio
T
T
Kramer
D
D
Kouros
B
B
Schwenk
M
M
Pfaff
G
G
D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000378:metabolism; D000328:Adult; D001572:Benzofurans / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism; D002648:Child; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007536:Isomerism; D008875:Middle Aged; D011078:Polychlorinated Biphenyls / Q000097:blood* / Q000378:metabolism; D000072317:Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000032:analysis / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism; D011108:Polymers / Q000378:metabolism
D001572:Benzofurans; D000072317:Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins; D011108:Polymers; C016068:polychlorodibenzofuran; D011078:Polychlorinated Biphenyls