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Figure 1. Lipid-adjusted concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in breast milk. Shown are organochlorine pesticides (OCPs; A), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs; B), and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs; C), expressed in nanograms per gram of lipid weight (ng g^-1 lw). For each boxplot, the box limits represent the 10th and 90th percentiles, the whiskers extend to the 5th and 95th percentiles, the interior line marks the median, and the square denotes the mean. Individual data points (dots) represent samples with concentrations above the limit of quantification (LOQ). Only compounds with DF% > 30 were presented in Figure 1. HCB: Hexachlorobenzene; DDE: dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene; DDD: dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane; DDT: dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; BDE: brominated diphenyl ethers; HCH: hexachlorocyclohexanes.