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October 24-25, 2016 | Valencia, Spain
International Conference on
Environmental Health & Safety
Volume 4, Issue 5 (Suppl) Occup Med Health
ISSN:2329-6879 OMHA, an open access journal Environmental Health 2016
October 24-25, 2016
PERSISTENT ORGANIC CHLORINATED COMPOUND RESIDUES IN THE BREAST MILK OF FEMALE
SEASONALAGRICULTURALWORKERS IN TURKEY
Kafiye Eroglua, Yavuz Kürşad Dasb , Zehra Gölbaşic, Şimşekd, Fatma Gözükarae and Enes Atmacab
aKoç University School of Nursing, Turkey
bNineteen May University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Turkey
cCumhuriyet University Health Science Faculty, Turkey
dHarran University Faculty of Medicine, Turkey
eHarran Üniversitesi School of Health Science, Turkey
Although organochlorine compounds (OCCs) used in industry and agriculture are not produced and not used legally at
the present time, they may cause undesirable effects by passing to humans through various routes due to their long- term
persistence in the external environment and transmission to babies through breastfeeding. Retrospective descriptive study aimed to
investigate organochlorine compounds in women who breastfeed and work as a seasonal agricultural worker (SAW). Retrospective
descriptive this study aimed to investigate OCCs in women who breastfeed and work as a SAW. The study is sponsored by Scientific
and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) with 114S163 number. It was carried out on 100 women worked as
SAW for the last one year. Data were collected a questionnaire by face-to-face interview and analyzed the residues of 27 items
of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) metabolits and polychlorinated biphenyls, (PCBs)
from persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in mothers’50 mL breast milk. Descriptive statistics, Chi square test and correlation
analyze were used to evaluate data. Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)28 component was determined in almost all women’s milk and
more than half of collected milk contained Beta-Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), PCB52, pp’-Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene
(DDE), Hexachlorobenzene (HCB), PCB70, pp’-Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) ve Gamma HCH respectively. Moreover,
PCB101, PCB183, PCB118, PCB105, PCB208, PCB170 ve Alfa-HCH components were detected in very few women (2-9 %). It was
recommended that necessary legal regulations, education and control studies on health, and follow-up studies investigating health
status of mothers and their babies.
Biography
Eroğlu is a professor of Obstetric and Gyncolojical Nursing in School of Nursing. She is interested in women health, reproductive and sexual health, gender (in
particular, sexuality, sexual education, fertility, family planning metods, climacteric, pregnancy, breastfeeding, reproductive health of agricultural workers). She has
published more than 20 international, 50 national papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute. Presently he has been
working at the at the Koç University School of Nursing.
Kafiye Eroglu et al., Occup Med Health Aff 2016, 4:5 (Suppl)