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Children and pregnancy / Measured in people or real products

Mothers who used perfumed laundry detergent had significantly higher levels of the musk chemical tonalide (AHTN) in their breast milk than mothers who used unscented detergent.

Moderate evidence: Product-use data from a N=44 subset; cross-sectional association, not an intervention; adjusted for sampling year.

Source: Lignell 2008, Environmental Science & Technology Link to this fact

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