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Human milk and colostrum samples were collected from women living in the vicinity of Albany, Oswego, and Rochester, New York. Analysis by a highly sensitive method based on glass-capillary gas chromatography with electron-capture detection showed that mirex was present only at very low concentrations (generally less than 0.1 ng/g wet weight whole milk). Gas chromatographic/mass spectrometric analysis with both a quadrupole spectrometer and a double-focusing instrument confirmed the presence of mirex in three samples which had been shown by electron-capture analysis to contain more than 1 ng of mirex/g wet weight.
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Bush, B., Snow, J., Connor, S. et al. Mirex in human milk in upstate New York. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 12, 739–746 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01060759
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