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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 6.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2012 Oct 16;46(21):12146–12153. doi: 10.1021/es302638d

Table 1.

Concentrations of target compounds, lipids and enantiomer fractions of HBCD in the 43 analyzed human milk samples.

Analyte (pg g-lw−1) % Detect Geometric Mean (Geometric SD) Range
TBBP-A 35% NR <30 – 550
ΣHBCDs 100% 1020 (2.2) 360 – 8100
α-HBCD 100% 710 (2.2) 250 – 4430
β-HBCD 100% 80 (2.3) 30 – 1640
γ-HBCD 100% 200 (2.4) 70 – 3200
PBCDs 42% NR <30 – 320
TBCDs 56% 50 (3.7) <30 – 530
Lipid content (g 100 ml−1) 1.58 (1.65) 0.57 – 4.69
Enantiomer Fraction Mean (SD) Range
α-HBCD 0.44 (0.05) 0.36 – 0.53
β-HBCD1 0.51 (0.02) 0.47 – 0.54
γ-HBCD 0.52 (0.03) 0.48 – 0.57
1

Enantiomer fraction determined for 49% of samples.

NR: not reported due to low detection frequency (<50%)