A review of a class of emerging contaminants: the classification, distribution, intensity of consumption, synthesis routes, environmental effects and expectation of …

J Yang, Y Zhao, M Li, M Du, X Li, Y Li - International journal of molecular …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) have been detected in various environmental
matrices and have been identified as emerging contaminants (EC). Given the adverse …

Chronic effects of organic pesticides on the aquatic environment and human health: A review

MA Islam, SMN Amin, MA Rahman, AS Juraimi… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Aquatic environment could be termed as the intercommunicating arrangement of water,
sediment and biota that provide food for humanity. Aquatic environments have deteriorated …

Human exposure to toxic metals via contaminated dust: Bio-accumulation trends and their potential risk estimation

J Mohmand, SAMAS Eqani, M Fasola, A Alamdar… - Chemosphere, 2015 - Elsevier
We assessed the levels of potentially toxic trace metals, Zinc (Zn), Lead (Pb), Manganese
(Mn), Copper (Cu), Nickel (Ni), Chromium (Cr), Cobalt (Co), and Cadmium (Cd), in dust, hair …

Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in South Asian region: a review

U Ali, JH Syed, RN Malik, A Katsoyiannis, J Li… - Science of the total …, 2014 - Elsevier
Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) are semi volatile organic compounds of global concern.
During the last decades, their distribution, sources, transformation, toxicity and accumulation …

Polyethylene terephthalate and polycarbonate microplastics in pet food and feces from the United States

J Zhang, L Wang, K Kannan - Environmental science & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Human exposure to microplastics has been a topic of interest, but measurements of
exposure are limited. Pet animals are sentinels of human exposure, as they share a …

Brominated and organophosphate flame retardants in indoor dust of Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: implications for human exposure

N Ali, SAMAS Eqani, IMI Ismail, G Malarvannan… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Different flame retardants (FRs) namely polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), emerging
brominated/chlorinated flame retardants (Br/Cl FRs), and organophosphate FRs (OPFRs) …

Reproductive and Metabolic Health Following Exposure to Environmental Chemicals: Mechanistic Insights from Mammalian Models

M Bellingham, NP Evans, RG Lea… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The decline in human reproductive and metabolic health over the past 50 years is
associated with exposure to complex mixtures of anthropogenic environmental chemicals …

E-waste driven pollution in Pakistan: the first evidence of environmental and human exposure to flame retardants (FRs) in Karachi City

M Iqbal, JH Syed, K Breivik, MJI Chaudhry… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
Informal e-waste recycling activities have been shown to be a major emitter of organic flame
retardants (FRs), contributing to both environmental and human exposure to laborers at e …

Potentially toxic elements in the Middle East oldest oil refinery zone soils: source apportionment, speciation, bioaccessibility and human health risk assessment

Z Mokhtarzadeh, B Keshavarzi, F Moore… - … Science and Pollution …, 2020 - Springer
In this research, fifteen potentially toxic elements (PTEs)(Al, As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Hg, Mn,
Mo, Ni, Pb, Sb, Sc and Zn) were analysed and quantified in samples collected at 44 sites in …

Prenatal exposures to organophosphate ester metabolite mixtures and children's neurobehavioral outcomes in the MADRES pregnancy cohort

I Hernandez-Castro, SP Eckel, CG Howe, Z Niu… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Background Evidence suggests organophosphate esters (OPEs) are neurotoxic; however,
the epidemiological literature remains scarce. We investigated whether prenatal exposures …