Persistent organochlorine pollutants in human serum of 50-65 years old women in the Flanders Environmental and Health Study(FLEHS). Part 1: concentrations and regional differences

摘要

In 1999, a campaign of the Flemish Ministry of Health, Belgium was set up to assess pollutant concentrations and related health effect biomarkers in humans living in two regions of Flanders. The study was called the 'Flemish En- vironment and Health Study'(FLEHS). One of the goals was to measure present concentrations of persistent orga- nochlorine pollutants in a Flemish population and to compare values obtained from pooled and individual serum samples. Concentrations of selected organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls(PCB) and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins(PCDD) and furans(PCDF)were measured by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.