Breast milk PCB levels ran 200 percent higher in fish-eating Mohawk mothers

Evidence

Under Katsi’s supervision, the research project studied 50 new mothers over several years and documented a 200 percent greater concentration of PCBs in the breast milk of those mothers who ate fish from the St. Lawrence River as opposed to the general population. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 124

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mothers transmit concentrated industrial toxins to infants through breast milk — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 119; Breastfeeding advice worked only because women first abandoned traditional fishing — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 125; The Mohawk must absorb industrial costs while corporations never change — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 78 (+2 more)