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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Environmental and Public Health Volume 2010, Article ID 861757, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2010/861757 Research Article Serum Persistent Organic Pollutants and Duration of Lactation among Mexican-American Women Rosana H. Weldon,1 Monique Webster,1 Kim G. Harley,1 Asa Bradman,1 Laura Fenster,2 Mark D. Davis,3 Alan Hubbard,4 Dana B. Barr,3 Nina Holland,1 and Brenda Eskenazi1 1 Center for Children’s Environmental Health Research, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA 2 Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA 94804-6403, USA 3 National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341-3717, USA 4 School of Public Health, Division of Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7358, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Brenda Eskenazi, eskenazi@ Received 6 January 2010; Accepted 19 April 2010 Academic Editor: David O. Carpenter Copyright © 2010 Rosana H. Weldon et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Background. Research suggests that estrogenic endocrine-disrupting chemicals interfere with lactation. Objectives. (1) to determine if estrogenic persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are associated with shortened lactation duration; (2) to determine whether previous breastfeeding history biases associations. Methods and Results. We measured selected organochlorines and polychlorinated