Dietary Phthalate Exposure in Pregnant Women and the Impact of Consumer Practices

Samantha E. Serrano, Catherine J. Karr, Noah S. Seixas, Ruby H. N. Nguyen, Emily S. Barrett, Sarah Janssen, Bruce Redmon, Shanna H. Swan and Sheela Sathyanarayana
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Samantha E. Serrano: Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98121, USA
Catherine J. Karr: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Noah S. Seixas: Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Ruby H. N. Nguyen: Department of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Emily S. Barrett: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
Sarah Janssen: Department of Urology, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Bruce Redmon: Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Shanna H. Swan: Department of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
Sheela Sathyanarayana: Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98121, USA

IJERPH, 2014, vol. 11, issue 6, 1-23

Abstract: Phthalates are ubiquitous endocrine-disrupting chemicals that are contaminants in food and contribute to significant dietary exposures. We examined associations between reported consumption of specific foods and beverages and first trimester urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations in 656 pregnant women within a multicenter cohort study, The Infant Development and Environment Study (TIDES), using multivariate regression analysis. We also examined whether reported use of ecofriendly and chemical-free products was associated with lower phthalate biomarker levels in comparison to not following such practices. Consumption of one additional serving of dairy per week was associated with decreases of 1% in the sum of di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) metabolite levels (95% CI: ?2.0, ?0.2). Further, participants who reported sometimes eating homegrown food had monoisobutyl phthalate (MiBP) levels that were 16.6% lower (95% CI: ?29.5, ?1.3) in comparison to participants in the rarely/never category. In contrast to rarely/never eating frozen fruits and vegetables, participants who reported sometimes following this practice had monobenzyl phthalate (MBzP) levels that were 21% higher (95% CI: 3.3, 41.7) than rarely/ever respondents. Future study on prenatal dietary phthalate exposure and the role of consumer product choices in reducing such exposure is needed.

Keywords: food; phthalates; diet; consumer practices; behavior; ecofriendly; organic; unprocessed; prenatal exposure; pregnant women (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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