THE STUDY OF ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES IN BREAST MILK AND THE IMPACT IN HEALTH, IN TIRANA ALBANIA

Organochlorine pesticides are highly lipophilic and stable resulting both in their persistence in the environment and their tendency to pass up the food chain. Residues of these compounds are detectable in breast milk and have been monitored since the 1950s. Exposure data to organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) of mothers’ breast milk samples were measured in different locations in Tirana and mothers have completed questionnaires about their diet. Milk samples were collected from mothers aged 18-40 years mothers involved in the study were nursing either their first or second child. The samples are taken at random. There are set 21 organochlorine pesticides including: dieldrin, aldrin, endrin, lindane, chlordane, heptachlor, DDT, α HCH, β- HCH, γ- HCH, BCH, Heptachlor epoxide, op-DDE, α Endosulfan, pp-DDE, op-DDT, pp-DDD, pp-DDT, β -Endosulfan, Captane, Methoxychlor, Mirex. In this work, we have detected PCB 36.84%, lindane 31.5%, α HCH31.5%, Heptachlor15.78%, α Endosulfan 15.78%, endrin 10.52%, dieldrin 10.52%. The samples have been examiated by the methods of FAO, with gaschromatography ECD detector, and the results are frequently used to assess degradation in the environment as well as risks to recipient infants. The measurements have been calculated in mg/kg levels.Numerious studies have linked organochlorine pesticides exposures with cancer and other health effects. Exposure of DDT is linked with the cancer of breast in women. As a food, breast milk is unique. It is manufactured entirely for an individual consumer with some of its constituents driven by its recipient. It can form the sole source of nutrition for a considerable period of an infant's life.