Assessing Disparities in Americans’ Exposure to PCBs and PBDEs based on NHANES Pooled Biomonitoring Data
基于 NHANES 混合生物监测数据评估美国人的 PCB 与 PBDE 暴露差异
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) has been continuously biomonitoring Americans' exposure to two families of harmful environmental chemicals: polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). However, biomonitoring these chemicals is expensive. To save cost, in 2005, NHANES resorted to pooled biomonitoring; i.e., amalgamating individual specimens to form a pool and measuring chemical levels from pools. Despite being…