Risk assessment of exposure to phthalates in breastfeeding women using human biomonitoring

Pablo Dualde1, Nuria Leon2, Olga Pardo3

  • 1Public Health Laboratory of Valencia, 21, Avenida Catalunya, 46020, Valencia, Spain; Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research in the Valencian Region, FISABIO-Public Health, 21, Avenida Catalunya, 46020, Valencia, Spain; Analytical Chemistry Department, University of Valencia, Edifici Jeroni Muñoz, Dr. Moliner 50, 46100, Burjassot, Spain.

Chemosphere
|July 19, 2020
PubMed

In this study, we assessed the presence of 14 phthalate metabolites in the urine of 104 lactating mothers from Valencia (Spain) who took part in the human biomonitoring project BETTERMILK. Nine of the metabolites studied showed detection frequencies >80%, whereas the rest of the metabolites presented low detection frequencies (<5%). The concentrations ranged from