Table 3.

Half-life and calculated liver volume–adjusted intrinsic clearance of POPs in infants and mothers.

Compounds	Half-life (years)	Intrinsic clearance (L/hr/kg liver)	Source of half-life value
PCB-153	27.5	0.0082601	Yakushiji et al. (1984)
PCB-180	9.9	0.0229504	Yakushiji et al. (1984)
PCB-138	16.3	0.0144328	Yakushiji et al. (1984)
HCB	6	0.0395820	To-Figueras et al. (1997)
β-HCH	7.6	0.0309631	Jung et al. (1997)
p,p′-DDE	15	0.0156840	Wolff et al. (2000)
p,p′-DDTa	5	0.0144328	Smith (1999)

^aThe half-life value displayed was chosen arbitrarily for a range of 4.2–5.6 years in Smith (1999).