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DDT and metabolites found in breast milk of Saudi mothers.
2003 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- DDT and its metabolites were found in the breast milk of Saudi mothers in a region regularly sprayed for leishmania control.
According to recent research from Saudi Arabia, "A cross sectional study was designed to measure DDT residues and its metabolites in breast milk samples collected randomly from Saudi lactating mothers living in Al-Ehssa region; which was under leishmania control until 1995, and compare them to samples from, mothers living in Riyadh region where no spraying activities was involved."
"p,p'-DDE, p,p'-DDD and p,p'-DDT residues were measured in 878 breast milk samples by gas chromatography/electron capture detector (GC/ECO) and confirmed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometer detector (GC/MSD)," reported Iman Al-Saleh and colleagues at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre and the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia. "Variation in the DDT and its metabolites levels were investigated with respect to regional distribution."
The researchers found, "Wilcoxon rank sum tests showed that the average ranks of p,p'-DDE, p,p'-DDD, p,p'-DDT and Sigma p,p'-DDT in lactating mothers from Al-Ehssa region were significantly higher than those living in Riyadh region. These differences supported our hypothesis that the implications of the spraying activities to control vector borne diseases in Al-Ehssa region are obvious. We estimated that 99.2% of infants of ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, DDT and metabolites found in breast milk of Saudi mothers.