Persistent Organic Pollutants in Human Milk

Part I Introduction.- Chapter 1 Human milk surveys on persistent organic pollutants from a historical perspective.- Chapter 2 Overview of WHO- and UNEP-coordinated human milk studies and their link to the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants.- Chapter 3 The Stockholm Convention, Global Monitoring Plan and its implementation in regional and global monitoring reports.- Part II Analytical methods and quality control.- Chapter 4 Analysis and quality control of WHO- and UNEP-coordinated human milk studies 2000-2019: polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans.- Chapter 5 Analysis and quality control of WHO- and UNEP-coordinated human milk studies 2000-2019: organochlorine pesticides and industrial chemicals.- Chapter 6 Analysis and quality control of WHO- and UNEP-coordinated human milk studies 2000-2019: polybrominated diphenylethers, hexabromocyclododecanes, chlorinated paraffins and polychlorinated naphthalenes.- Part III WHO/UNEP-coordinated exposure studies 2000-2019: results of chlorinated and brominated POPs and discussion.- Chapter 7 WHO- and UNEP-coordinated human milk studies 2000-2019: findings of polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans.- Chapter 8 WHO- and UNEP-coordinated human milk studies 2000-2019: findings of organochlorine pesticides and industrial chemicals.- Chapter 9 WHO- and UNEP-coordinated human milk studies 2000-2019: findings of polybrominated substances (PBDE, HBCDD, PBB 153, PBDD/PBDF).- Chapter 10 WHO- and UNEP-coordinated human milk studies 2000-2019: findings of chlorinated paraffins.- Chapter 11 WHO- and UNEP-coordinated human milk studies 2000-2019: findings of polychlorinated naphthalenes.- Part IV Assessments.- Chapter 12 Time trends in human milk derived from WHO- and UNEP-coordinated exposure studies; Chapter 1: polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans.-

Rainer Malisch is a food chemist. His doctoral thesis at the University of Münster, Germany, dealt with the environmental contamination by organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls and phthalates. Dr Malisch worked for the CVUA Freiburg, Germany, initially as head of the residue laboratory for veterinary drugs, later for dioxins and PCB. He supported the WHO/UNEP-coordinated exposure studies as head of the reference laboratory for determination of chlorinated and brominated POPs in human milk samples of the period 2000-2019. After designation of two Community Reference Laboratories (CRLs) to CVUA Freiburg in 2006, he became director of the CRL for Pesticides Residues in Food of Animal Origin and Commodities with High Fat Content (with this responsibility until 2010) and of the CRL for Dioxins and PCBs in Feed and Food. In 2010, the CRLs were renamed into "European Union Reference Laboratory" (EURL). In 2018, the tasks of the EURL for dioxins and PCBs were extended to all halogenated POPs ("EU Reference Laboratory for halogenated persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Feed and Food"). He was member of several committees and commissions and retired in 2019.

Peter Fürst studied Food Chemistry at the Universität of Münster/Germany where he received his PhD in 1982. From 1981 until his retirement in 2019, he joined the Chemical and Veterinary Analytical Institute Münsterland-Emscher-Lippe (MEL) and its legacy institutes where he held various positions. Since 2014, he was Chief Executive Officer of the institute which is a public-law institution. In 1988, he took a six-month sabbatical leave at the Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta/USA, and Health and Welfare, Ottawa/Canada. His main working areas are the investigation and assessment of organic contaminants in food, feed and human milk. He is a member of several European committees and commissions, including the Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain of the European