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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 472, Issue -, Pages 496-501Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.059
Keywords
Biomonitoring; Mexico; p,p '-DDE; PBDEs; PCBs; POPs
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- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Mexico, CONACYT-SEMARNAT [107900]
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Studies in Mexico have demonstrated exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in people living in different sites through the country. However, studies evaluating exposure to POPs in people living in Mexico City (one of most contaminated places in the world) are scarce. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the levels of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and its metabolite dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) in the blood as exposure biomarkers in people living in Mexico City. A total of 123 participants (blood donors aged 20-60 years) were recruited during 2010 in Mexico City. Quantitative analyses of blood samples were performed using gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry. Levels of the assessed compounds ranged from non-detectable (
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