Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) have been used worldwide, particularly in Africa, for several decades. Although many are banned, several African countries still use OCPs especially for the prevention and control of malaria. OCPs are characterized by their bio-accumulation in the environment, especially in the food chain, where they find their way into the human body. Despite no clear epidemiol...

In this study, it was aimed to determine organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in three types of milk (cow's, buffalo's, and sheep's milk) produced in Afyonkarahisar province of Turkey. The results indicated that these milk specimens were found to be contaminated by 21 different pesticides. Sixteen OCP residues were detected in sheep's milk and it was followed with 14 pesticides in buffalo's milk an...

The concentrations and distributions of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in some higher plant samples collected from oil exploration areas of the Niger Delta, Nigeria were examined. The concentrations of Σ(25)OCP ranged from 82 to 424, 44 to 200 , 34 to 358, 33 to 106 and 16 to 75 ng/g in Olomoro, Oginni, Uzere, Irri and Calabar plants, respectively. The compositional profiles of the analysed O...

In communities which consume rice as main food, importance of risk assessment forcontaminants is always taken into consideration by health authorities. The present study isan attempt for monitoring of 56 pesticides from different chemical groups in rice samplescollected from local markets in Tehran and estimation of daily intake of interested pesticidesthrough this monitoring. A valid method ba...

Abstract Animal feed is typically plant-based and can contain pesticide residues. Methods for testing food samples, such as the Quick Easy Cheap Effective Rugged Safe (QuEChERS) method or Swedish Ethyl Acetate (SweEt) method, successfully extract many However, nonpolar pesticides, organochlorine show poor recovery when extracted from lipid-rich samples. The previously developed water-acetonitri...

Organochlorine pesticides such as DDT, dieldrin and lindane are pesticides used in agriculture and public health. The chemicals persist in the environment and accumulate in fatty tissues of living organisms. Toxicity of organochlorines in nontarget organisms is mainly due to chronic exposure to sublethal doses of the chemicals. Some of the documented detrimental effects of the pesticides in the...

Levels of six PCB congeners and seven organochlorine pesticides were investigated and compared in ambient air and in pine needle samples. The applied methods are suitable for the analysis of PCBs and organochlorine pesticides in environmental samples and for their detection in recent intakes. DDE, HCB, lindane, PCB-28, PCB-52, PCB-101, PCB-138 and PCB-153 were found in all pine needle and air s...

RESULTS—After adjusting for known type 2 diabetes risk factors, including obesity, odds ratios (ORs) (95% CIs) for type 2 diabetes at age 75 years (n = 36) according to the quintiles of a summary measure of concentrations of PCBs (vs. the lowest quintile) were 4.5, 5.1, 8.8 (1.8– 42.7), and 7.5 (1.4–38.8) (Ptrend,0.01). Among organochlorine pesticides, adjusted ORs across concentrations of tran...