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Vol. 1 No. 1zero (2011)
https://doi.org/10.4081/ijfs.2011.839

HYDROCARBON CONTAMINATION IN BREAST MILK: PRELIMINARY STUDY

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Received: 4 January 2013
Published: 8 January 2011
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polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, breast milk

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R. Mercogliano
lucia.zoppi@pagepress.org
Dipartimento di Scienze Zootecniche e Ispezione degli alimenti – Università di Napoli, Italy.
A. De Felice
Dipartimento di Scienze Zootecniche e Ispezione degli alimenti – Università di Napoli, Italy.
G. Pezone
Reparto struttura interdipartimentale SSD- Ristorazione collettiva- ASL Napoli 1, Italy.
V. Raffone
Poliambulatorio Clinica Mediterranea- Napoli, Italy.
G. Chirichiello
Reparto neonatologia Clinica Malzoni- Avellino, Italy.
M.L. Cortesi
Dipartimento di Scienze Zootecniche e Ispezione degli alimenti – Università di Napoli, Italy.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), mainly formed by anthropogenic activities, are ubiquitous environmental contaminants. Due to environmental contamination and their chemical properties they migrate through the human food chain, and can be transferred from mother to infant via breastfeeding. The presence of PAHs in breast milk collected from 16 lactating women living in urban and rural areas of Campania (Italy) was investigated. Results showed the presence of 14 hydrocabons. Carcinogenic benzo(a)pyrene and potential carcinogenic dibenzo(ah)anthracene were found at concentrations rancing from 0.3 to 37.6 μg/kg and from 0.5 to 47.0, respectively.

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HYDROCARBON CONTAMINATION IN BREAST MILK: PRELIMINARY STUDY. Ital J Food Safety [Internet]. 2011 Jan. 8 [cited 2026 Jun. 5];1(1zero):67-70. Available from: https://www.pagepressjournals.org/ijfs/article/view/ijfs.2011.1S.67

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