Environmental contaminants in breast milk decrease over lactation time

Friday, January 21, 2011 - 12:31 in Health & Medicine

The levels of environmental contaminants in a mother's body decrease during breast-feeding. After a year of lactation, the levels of a number of environmental contaminants in breast milk drop by 15-94 percent, according to a recent study.

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