From semipermeable membrane devices (SPMDs) placed in five Mississippi Delta streams in 1996 and 1997, the persistent organic pollutants (POPs) aldrin, chlordane, DCPA, DDT, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, mirex, nonachlor, and toxaphene were detected. In addition, the insecticides chlorpyriphos, endosulfan, and hexachlorocyclohexanes were detected. Two low-solubility herbicides not detected comm...

liver samples from golden jackal (canis aureus) were collected from noor in the central coastline mazandaran province. the samples of this study were killed in road accidents. levels of persistent organochlorine pollutants (pops) including polychlorinated biphenyls (pcbs), ddts and metabolites, hexachlorocyclohexanes (hchs) and metabolites, hexachlorobenzene (hcb), aldrin and dieldrin were meas...

Levels of organochlorine (OC) and organophosphorus (OP) pesticide residues in fish, sediments and water and their health risk associated with the consumption of the fish from the Tono Reservoir, Ghana were evaluated. The analytical methods included solvent extraction of the pesticide residues using ultrasound sonication and soxhlet extraction and their subsequent quantification using GC equippe...

A presente edição da Revista MODOS: de História Arte conta com dezesseis textos inéditos. Destacamos os artigos do dossiê Independência ou Morte! Tradições e modernidades, proposto pelos professores Aldrin Moura Figueiredo, Universidade Federal Pará, Paulo Knauss, Fluminense, que vêm adensar a discussão sobre dependências independências, relações passado o presente, monumentalizações ocultament...

Extensive distribution of hazardous substances in food chain and the deleterious effect of their residues on public health are a great concern of the society. Chicken eggs, as one of the most popular food commodities, in different parts of Tehran (Iran) were analyzed for two groups of hazardous substances including some organochlorine pesticides (OC) such as aldrin, lindane, dieldrin, dichlorod...