MATERNAL CONTAMINANT EXPOSURE IN CANADA: CONVENIENCE AND RANDOM SAMPLING COMPARISONS

Background / Aims Recently the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) and a Health Canada study have examined in southern Canada a similar group of contaminants in women of child bearing age (WCBA) and mothers, respectively. This paper will examine the differences in these contaminants between a random sample of WCBA and a convenience sample of mothers, both Canadian born and non-Canadian born. Methods The CHMS a national health survey of over …