Recommendations for Evaluating Temporal Trends of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Breast Milk

Conclusions: Time-trend data of rapidly-eliminated POPs provide information on exposure time trends and elimination half-lives. Temporal trends of slowly-eliminated POPs are more complicated to interpret, and the extraction of exposure time trends and elimination half-lives require data sets covering several decades. This EHP Advance Publication article has been peer-reviewed, revised, and accepted for publication. EHP Advance Publication articles are completely citable using the DOI number assigned to the article. This document will be replaced with the copyedited and formatted version as soon as it is available. Through the DOI number used in the citation, you will be able to access this document at each stage of the publication process. Citation: Gyalpo T, Scheringer M, Hungerbühler K. Recommendations for Evaluating Temporal Trends of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Breast Milk. Environ Health Perspect; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1510219 Received: 15 May 2015 Accepted: 30 November 2015 Advance Publication: 15 December 2015 Note to readers with disabilities: EHP strives to ensure that all journal content is accessible to all readers. However, some figures and Supplemental Material published in EHP articles may not conform to 508 standards due to the complexity of the information being presented. If you need assistance accessing journal content, please contact ...
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