Alawi M A, Wichmann H, Lorenz W, Bahadir M
Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
Chemosphere. 1996 Dec;33(12):2469-74. doi: 10.1016/s0045-6535(96)00347-5.
Thirty individual human milk samples were gathered from five main towns in Jordan. They were mixed to six pooled samples and analyzed for PCDD and PCDF. All examined samples were contaminated with 1,2,3,4,6,7,8-HeptaCDD (3.2-96.0 ng/kg fat) and OctaCDD (29.0-147 ng/kg fat). The calculated TEQ (BGA)-values range between 0.26 and 60.32 ng TEQ/kg fat, which are all above the calculated tolerable concentration of 0.19 ng TEQ/kg milk fat.