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 …

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 …

Mass loading and removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products, including psychoactive and illicit drugs and artificial sweeteners, in five sewage treatment …

B Subedi, K Balakrishna, RK Sinha… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Despite the high consumption of pharmaceuticals, mass loading and removal of these
compounds in sewage treatment plants (STPs) in India have not been investigated. In this …

[Књига][B] Pesticide toxicity to microorganisms: exposure, toxicity and risk assessment methodologies

J Stanley, G Preetha, J Stanley, G Preetha - 2016 - Springer
Microbes play a major role in medical technology, food processing, biotechnology,
agriculture and many other fields. The major route of pesticide exposure to microbes in the …

Environment and human exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in India: A systematic review of recent and historical data

BM Sharma, GK Bharat, S Tayal, L Nizzetto… - Environment …, 2014 - Elsevier
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been used in a wide range of agricultural and
industrial commodities, resulting in vigorous deterioration of environment and human health …

Occurrence, distribution and possible sources of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the surface water from the Bay of Bengal coast of Bangladesh

M Habibullah-Al-Mamun, MK Ahmed, MS Islam… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Full profile of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the coastal surface water from
Bangladesh were analyzed by GC-MS/MS to explore the status of contamination …

Polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides in River Brahmaputra from the outer Himalayan Range and River Hooghly emptying into the Bay of Bengal …

P Chakraborty, SN Khuman, S Selvaraj… - Environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
River Brahmaputra (RB) from the outer Himalayan Range and River Hooghly (RH), a
distributary of River Ganga, are the two largest transboundary perennial rivers supplying …

Persistent organochlorine pesticide and PCB residues in surface sediments of Lake Qarun, a protected area of Egypt

AO Barakat, M Khairy, I Aukaily - Chemosphere, 2013 - Elsevier
Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were determined
in sediment samples collected from 34 locations in Lake Qarun, Egypt to elucidate their …

First polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) monitoring in seawater, surface sediments and marine fish communities of the Persian Gulf: Distribution, levels, congener …

AR Jafarabadi, AR Bakhtiari, S Mitra, M Maisano… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent organic pollutants that, due to their high
toxicity, lipophilic property and widespread dispersal in the global environment, present a …

Selected organochlorine pesticides in the atmosphere of major Indian cities: levels, regional versus local variations, and sources

P Chakraborty, G Zhang, J Li, Y Xu, X Liu… - Environmental …, 2010 - ACS Publications
India has extensive production and usage of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) for
agriculture and vector control. Despite this, few data are available on the levels and …