Dioxins, dibenzofurans and selected chlorinated organic compounds in human milk and blood from Cambodia, Germany, Thailand, the U.S.A., the U.S.S.R., and Vietnam

This paper reports general population blood polychlorinated dioxin and dibenzofuran (PCDD/F) levels for various geographical regions in the north and south of Vietnam in pooled samples from 112 persons, the results of 85 individual analyses of blood from Germany, and levels from a pool of whole blood from 100 U.S. residents. This paper also presents selected population data for PCDD/Fs and certain other chlorinated chemicals such as PCBs and other chlorinated xenobiotics in human milk from locations in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. These represent new samples from seventy persons from the general population from three less industrialized Asian countries; these are compared with our previous findings from several hundred persons from Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States.