*To whom correspondence should be addressed: Department of Hygienic Sciences, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Motoyamakitamachi 4-chome, Higashinada-ku, Kobe 658– 8558, Japan. Tel.: +81-78-441-7564; Fax: +81-78-441-7565; E-mail: [email protected] Defatted seeds effectively adsorbed organochlorine compounds such as chloroform, dichloromethane and trichloroethylene. The amounts of these...

Organophosphorous and organochlorine pesticides, which were banned or restricted in the US and in Europe years ago, are still applied in India to control pests affecting pulses and wheat. Their simple application, efficacy, and economic return may explain the popularity of these pesticides in Indian agriculture. Unfortunately, organophosphorous and organochlorine pesticides are in general very ...

Some organochlorine compounds, such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), have a tendency to bioaccumulate in humans and predators at the top of the food chain. We have recently confirmed the transplacental transfer of these compounds and the present study has been designed on the same material with the aim of investigating their potential health effects on newborns from 70 pregnant women, resid...

A gas chromatographic method for the analysis of 10 organochlorine pesticides in 0.5 mL of whole blood is described. Sample preparation involved an ethyl ether and hexane extraction, followed by a silica solid phase extraction cleanup. The pesticides are quantified by gas chromatography/electron capture detection. Method limits of detection ranged from 1.1 to 5.2 microg/L. The mean and standard...

Organochlorine (OC) pesticides are synthetic pesticides widely used all over the world. They belong to the group of chlorinated hydrocarbon derivatives, which have vast application in the chemical industry and in agriculture. These compounds are known for their high toxicity, slow degradation and bioaccumulation. Even though many of the compounds which belong to OC were banned in developed coun...

Eggs from aplomado falcons (Falco femoralis septentrionalis) nesting in Chihuahua and Veracruz, Mexico, were analyzed for organochlorine pesticides, PCBs, and PBDEs. p,p'-DDE was the only organochlorine found in all eggs at concentrations ranging from 0.13 to 7.85 μg/g wet weight. PCBs ranged from 0.04 to 2.80 μg/g wet weight and PBDEs from 62 to 798 ng/g lipid weight. DDE concentrations in egg...

Despite more than 20 years of intensive use there are major uncertainties about the environmental distribution and degradative fate of the various organochlorine pesticides in food web organisms. The problem is both controversial and momentous, as 88,641,000 pounds of cyclodienes and toxaphene and 59,316,000 pounds of DDT were produced in the United States in 1970 (1). The laboratory model ecos...