Obsolete organochlorine pesticides (OSPs) are currently prohibited as persistent organic pollutants that contaminate the environment. If undisposed, they continue to pollute soil and water, accumulate in food chain harm plants, animals human body. The aim of study was assess water pollution around storehouses banned OSPs their possible genotoxic effect. four villages near Almaty, Kazakhstan wer...

The utilization of organochlorine pesticides for pest control chemical has been of great interest on residue contamination from biological organisms in the environment. Green mussel (Perna viridis) samples were monitored as bioindicators for assessment of the water quality in coastal waters along the Gulf of Thailand. Thirty-six samples were collected from 12 stations during 1997-1999 and analy...

Although organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) have been banned for more than three decades, their concentrations only decreased gradually. This may be largely attributable to environmental persistence, illegal application, and exemption usage. study assessed the historic current regional context dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), chlordane, hexachlorobenzene (HCB), which were added Stockholm Co...

The major task of Chinese water governance has gradually shifted away from environment protection to ecology remediation, and the trace organic pollutants, including persistent pollutants antibiotics, attracted growing concern. present study examined seasonal distribution sources typical antibiotics in six representative lower reaches Yangtze River, as well their ecological risk environment. Si...

Historical use of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in the Republic Moldova could pose a potential risk for aquatic environment due to persistence, bioaccumulation and toxic properties these environmental pollutants. However, knowledge on concentrations legacy OCPs is limited. In this study, surface sediment from two main rivers; Dniester (8 sites, n = 15) Prut (6 12), tributary Bîc (11 11) R?ut...

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) has been contaminated by persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including legacy organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) through atmospheric transport. The exact source regions, transport pathways and time trends of POPs to the TP are not well understood. Here polystyrene– divinylbenzene copolymer resin (XAD)-based passive air samplers (PASs...

Concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs; DDTs, HCHs, CHLs, and HCB) were measured in human breast milk samples collected across Massachusetts, USA, in 2004. Seventeen PBDE congeners were found in the samples, ranging in concentration from 0.06 to 1910 ng g(-1) lipid wt. BDE-47 (2,2',4,4'-tetraBDE), BDE-99 (2,2',4,4',5-pentaBDE), and BDE-100 ...

The temporal distribution of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) was examined in the (210)Pb dated sediment core from the Beibu Gulf, South China Sea. The total OCPs concentrations were in the range of 0.93-26.6 ng g(-1) dry weight. Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanes (DDTs) (0.17-24.8 ng g(-1)), Hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) (0.04-0.51 ng g(-1)), Chlordane related compounds (CHLs) (0.22-1.72 ng g(-1...

The organohalogenated contaminants (OCs) including 12 organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), 7 indicator polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and 7 polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) were determined in soils collected from Kenya, Eastern Africa. The total OCPs fell in the range of n.d-49.74 μg kg(-1) dry weight (dw), which was dominated by DDTs and endosulfan. Identification of pollution sources ind...