Prenatal PCB Exposure and Cognitive Development

Abstract

IQ scores of 118 Taiwanese children who had been exposed prenatally to high levels of heat-degraded polychlorinated phenyls (PCBs) in contaminated rice oil and compared with controls are reported from the National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Keywords

• polychlorinated phenyls
• taiwanese children
• maternal exposure