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Mr Cromwell said: “Unfortunately the volume of water overwhelmed the arrangements that we had in place that particular weekend.” Jaraczewska K, Lulek J, Covaci A, Voorspoels S, Kaluba-Skotarczak A, Drews K, Schepens P. Distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls, organochlorine pesticides and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in human umbilical cord serum, maternal serum and milk from Wielkopolska region, Poland. Science of the total environment. 2006; 372(1):20–31. [ PubMed] [ Google Scholar] Temporal trends of ΣPCBs (upper) and p,p′-DDE (lower) concentrations in archived dried blood spot samples from NYS newborn screening program, 1997 to 2011 DBS collected from NSP is a valuable resource for studying exposure of newborns to environmental chemicals and for studying temporal trends with exposure to environmental chemicals in newborns. In this study, a gas chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry method with ultrasonic extraction was successfully applied for the analysis of PCBs and OCPs in DBS samples. This study presents the first evidence of temporal trends of these compounds in DBS specimens collected from newborns during the past two decades. A significant reduction in blood concentrations of PCBs and p,p′-DDE was found between 1997 and 2011. The method developed in this study is applied for a population-based birth cohort with a focus on environmental chemical exposure, couple fertility and children’s health ( Louis et al. 2014).