First data on background levels of non-ortho and mono-ortho PCBs in blood of residents from southern Germany.

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Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Welfare Baden-Wurttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany.

Published: February 1996

Blood-fat concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) congeners: no. 105, 118, 156 (mono-ortho-substituted) and no. 77, 126, 169 (non-ortho-substituted) and PCB congeners no. 28, 52, 101, 138, 153 and 180 were measured. The investigations were carried out in pooled samples from children and in individual samples from adults. Additionally polychloro-p-dibenzodioxins and -furans (PCDD/PCDF) were investigated.

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