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Toxic Effects – Skin<br />

Dark ‘‘cola-colored’’ hyperpigmentation<br />

characteristically seen in some Yusho<br />

babies<br />

Chloracne and brownish hyperpigmentation<br />

who was exposed decades earlier to <strong>PCBs</strong> in<br />

the Yusho rice oil incident.<br />

(Kuratsune et al., 1996)<br />

• Kuratsune M., Yoshimura H., Hori Y., Okumura M., and Matsuda Y.<br />

(1996) Yusho —A human disaster caused by PCB and related<br />

compounds (Fukuoka: Kyushu University Press) 361 pp.

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