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Table 1 Concentrations of the PBDE congeners identified in human milk from the Faroe Islands. The samples were pooled with ten mothers in each pool, two samples (A/B) of the same pool were analyzed in parallel. ΣPBDE consist of BDE-47, BDE-99, BDE-100, BDE-153 and BDE-209.

From: A retrospective study of PBDEs and PCBs in human milk from the Faroe Islands

 

Concentration (ng/g fat)

Concentration (pmol/g fat)

Year

1987

1994/95

1999

1999

1987

1994/95

1999

1999

Samples

(A/B)a

(A/B)a

(A/B)a

n = 9b

(A/B)a

(A/B)a

(A/B)a

n = 9b

    

mean/median (range)

   

mean/median (range)

BDE-47

0.37/0.40

1.1/1.1

1.7/1.6

1.9/1.3 (0.90–4.5)

0.77/0.83

2.2/2.2

3.5/3.4

4.0/2.6 (1.8–9.2)

BDE-99

0.15/0.17

0.50/0.51

0.91/0.94

0.84/0.73 (0.33–1.8)

0.26/0.30

0.88/0.90

1.6/1.7

1.5/1.3 (0.59–3.3)

BDE-100

0.23/0.26

0.58/0.59

0.92/0.96

1.0/0.58 (0.30–2.8)

0.41/0.45

1.0/1.1

1.6/1.7

1.8/1.0 (0.53–4.9)

BDE-153

0.57/0.65

1.4/1.4

3.3/3.6

2.4/2.1 (1.5–3.8)

0.89/1.0

2.1/2.2

5.1/5.5

3.8/3.2 (2.3–6.0)

BDE-209

0.59/0.59

0.47/0.55

1.1/1.3

1.0/0.60 (<0.14c–3.2)

0.62/0.62

0.49/0.58

1.2/1.3

1.1/0.63 (<0.15c–3.4)

ΣPBDE

1.9/2.1

4.0/4.2

8.0/8.4

7.2/5.8 (4.7–13)

2.9/3.2

6.8/6.9

13/14

12/8.9 (7.9–23)

BDE-154/BB-153

1.8/2.1

1.8/1.8

2.5/2.6

1.9/1.3 (0.66–4.0)

2.9/3.3

2.7/2.8

3.9/4.0

3.0/2.1 (1.0–6.3)

  1. aThe samples were pooled with 10 mothers in each pool, two samples of the same pool were analyzed in parallel.
  2. bThe nine individual samples are the same samples as those included in the pool, except one missing.
  3. cLOQ for BDE-209