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Title Contemporary-use pesticides in personal air samples during pregnancy and blood samples at delivery among urban minority mothers and newborns.
Author Whyatt RM, Barr DB, Camann DE, et al.
Date 2003
Description The authors compared the concentration of 29 pesticides in blood plasma and home air samples of pregnant women and children between 1998 and 2001. Pesticide exposures were frequent, with three pesticides found in 100% of the women's personal air samples, but decreasing over time.
Keywords air pollution, children, urban
URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12727605
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