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Environmental contaminants

Environmental contaminants

When chemicals are released in nature, they can reappear in food, water and consumer products. Many different substances are found in food and water.

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Fact sheet

Breast milk and environmental pollutants in Norway - fact sheet

The amount of environmental pollutants in breast milk has decreased significantly in recent years.

Updated 18.04.2016

Article

Energy-saving light bulbs: what to do if they break

Energy-saving light bulbs contain small amounts of metallic mercury. If they break, the mercury is released. This causes a minimal health risk, but dispose of all the glass and mercury carefully.

Updated 18.04.2016

News and research findings

Research findings

Dietary habits contribute to environmental contaminant levels in the body

In a new study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, researchers studied how diet affects the levels of environmental contaminants in pregnant women and children.

Published 28.11.2019

Research findings

Children exposed to many environmental contaminants

Children across Europe are exposed to a wide range of contaminants in foetal life and childhood but their exposure varies by country and compound, according to a recent study.

Published 30.10.2018

Research findings

Infant growth affected by exposure to environmental pollutants

Even though the levels of two environmental pollutants have declined over the last 20 years, they may still have adverse effects on children’s development.

Updated 18.04.2016

Research findings

Can environmental contaminants cause lower sperm count?

The amount of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) that mothers had in their blood during pregnancy was correlated with their sons' semen quality at 20 years old.

Updated 18.04.2016

Projects

Project

EXIMIOUS - Mapping Exposure-Induced Immune Effects: Connecting the Exposome and the Immunome

We will build a multifaceted toolbox to help assess the impact of the exposome on the immune system at the level of individuals and populations.

Updated 22.04.2020

Project

Reliability of Free and Total BPA analyte measures in MoBa

We propose a reliability study of BPA biomarkers over the course of pregnancy that separates total and free BPA, using the reliability substudy urine samples collected in MoBa.

Published 21.01.2019

Project

Prenatal exposure to toxicants and childhood neurodevelopmental disorders and cognitive functions (NeuroTox)

Do maternal blood levels of perfluoroalkyl substances and different metals (e.g. mercury, lead, and arsenic) during pregnancy have negative effects on neurodevelopment in children?

Published 21.11.2018

Project

Plasma concentrations of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in pregnant women and the association with child's prenatal and postnatal growth.

We will investigate how exposure to PFAS during pregnancy can affect fetal growth within a large meta-analysis of European birth cohorts.

Updated 14.12.2018

Project

NON-PROTECTED. The impact of perfluorinated toxicants and the gut microbiome on vaccine responses in children.

The project will investigate whether PFAS, even at lower levels, is of importance for the vaccine response, as well as investigating the role of the gut microbiota for vaccine responses.

Updated 01.02.2021

Project

The CATCH-UP project: The impact of pre- and postnatal exposure to mixtures of environmental toxicants on catch-up growth, obesity and cardio-metabolic health in children

The overall objective of the project is to study the potential effects of exposure to mixtures of toxicants during vulnerable life stages on child growth and weight status.

Updated 29.11.2018

Project

Perfluoroalkyl substances in maternal plasma during pregnancy and duration of breastfeeding

The purpose of this project has been to investigate the association between maternal plasma concentrations of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and duration of breastfeeding.

Updated 18.12.2018

Project

Pre- and postnatal exposure to a mixture of dietary contaminants and weight development at 3, 5 and 8 years.

This project will study how prenatal exposure to contaminants are associated with growth and weight development in children until the age of 8 years.

Updated 23.11.2018

Project

«European Test and Risk Assessment Strategies for Mixtures (EuroMix) – a human biomonitoring study

The Horizon 2020 EuroMix project aims to provide validated test strategies for the hazard and exposure assessments of chemical mixtures.

Updated 01.02.2021

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Air pollution

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Environmental contaminants

Articles

Breast milk and environmental pollutants in Norway - fact sheet

Energy-saving light bulbs: what to do if they break

News and research findings

Dietary habits contribute to environmental contaminant levels in the body

Children exposed to many environmental contaminants

Infant growth affected by exposure to environmental pollutants

Can environmental contaminants cause lower sperm count?

Projects

EXIMIOUS - Mapping Exposure-Induced Immune Effects: Connecting the Exposome and the Immunome

Reliability of Free and Total BPA analyte measures in MoBa

Prenatal exposure to toxicants and childhood neurodevelopmental disorders and cognitive functions (NeuroTox)

Plasma concentrations of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in pregnant women and the association with child's prenatal and postnatal growth.

NON-PROTECTED. The impact of perfluorinated toxicants and the gut microbiome on vaccine responses in children.

The CATCH-UP project: The impact of pre- and postnatal exposure to mixtures of environmental toxicants on catch-up growth, obesity and cardio-metabolic health in children

Perfluoroalkyl substances in maternal plasma during pregnancy and duration of breastfeeding

Pre- and postnatal exposure to a mixture of dietary contaminants and weight development at 3, 5 and 8 years.

«European Test and Risk Assessment Strategies for Mixtures (EuroMix) – a human biomonitoring study

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