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Meconium and neurotoxicants: searching for a prenatal exposure timing.
Arch Dis Child
August 2006
Pediatric Environmental Health Speciality Unit (PEHSU), University Children's Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, Ctra. Murcia-Cartagena, El Palmar, CP-30120, Murcia, Spain.
Background: Exposure to organochlorine compounds (OCs) has been a subject of interest in recent years, given their potential neurotoxicity. Meconium is easily available and accumulates neurotoxicants and/or metabolites from the 12th week of gestation.
Aims: To determine whether neurotoxicants, specifically OCs, could be detected in serially collected meconium, and to compare the results with those obtained in cord blood samples.