Polychlorinated terphenyls in a human fat and mother's milk (author's transl)

Abstract

The authors have been able to establish a new analytical method of measuring polychlorinated terphenyl compounds (PCT) and have applied it to quantitative determinations in the human body.The selected materials were human fat from the omentum major and mother's milk. PCT was detected in most samples Sy gas chromatography and confirmed by mass spectroscopy coupled with gas chromatography.The amount of PCT present in human fat was 0.37±0.88ppm on fat basis and was approximately one third the level of PCB. In mother's milk the amount of PCT was 0.012±0.05ppm on fat basis, but the level of PCT was negligible (1/60 that of PCB).