A team of researchers including Kathleen Arcaro of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has found suspected carcinogens in samples of breast milk from nursing mothers in Massachusetts.
“Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), are found in human blood around the world, including the blood of newborns, but this is the first study in the United States to document their occurrence in breast milk,” says Arcaro, a professor in the department of veterinary and animal sciences and a member of the environmental sciences program.
Breast milk should be considered as an additional source of PFCs when determining a child’s total exposure, samples were collected in 2004 from 45 nursing mothers in Massachusetts and analyzed for nine different PFCs. Arcaro cautions that recommended intakes of PFCs based on Total Daily Intake values should be interpreted with caution, since there is no consensus on these values, which are derived from rodent studies.
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