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Article: Breast milk contains C8, study concludes
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- May 4, 2008
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C8 and related chemicals used in nonstick pans and stain-
resistant fabrics have been found in human breast milk, according to
the first major U.S. study to examine breast-feeding as a possible
exposure route.
Perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs, were found in all of the 45
human breast milk samples tested in the new study, published in the
peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science and Technology.
Toxicologist Kathleen Arcaro of the University of Massachusetts
Amherst and other researchers tested the milk as part of Arcaro's
ongoing investigation of links between environmental exposures and
breast cancer.
It's one of several sources of contamination
"While nursing does ...
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