
PCB-like toxic substances contaminate breast milk
japan today > Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 13:37 EDT
TOKYO ---Toxic substances similar to the pollutant polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCB, have contaminated the breast milk of Japanese women, a group of Japan-based scientists said Wednesday. The group announced its discovery of polychlorinated/brominated coplanar biphenyls, or Co-PXBs, in mothers' milk, suspecting the materials ended up in human bodies through eating of fish...more...