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Rethinking Chlorine: Essential Chemical or Replaceable Risk?

ChemSusChem, Volume 18, Issue 13, July 1, 2025.
Chlorine is essential for the production of plastics and pharmaceuticals but poses significant safety and environmental risks. Herein, processes are presented that substitute chlorine or reduce its demand. Where indispensable, trichloride‐ and bichloride‐based ionic liquids could enhance safety and streamline the integration of renewable energy ...
Johannes Schwan, Merlin Kleoff, Gesa H. Dreyhsig, Patrick Voßnacker, Traute Fiedler, Marian Rosental, Sebastian Riedel   +6 more
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SERS‐Based Vapor‐Phase Sensing of Hazardous Molecules: Recent Developments and Opportunities

CleanMat, Volume 2, Issue 2, Page 127-154, June 2025.
Since its discovery, SERS has gained rapid attention in molecular detection due to its high sensitivity and trace‐level sensing capabilities. It holds significant features in the detection of molecules in a vapor phase. Recently, vapor‐phase molecular detection has gained extensive importance in human‐associated fields like environmental monitoring ...
V. S. Vendamani, Pardhu Yella, Amrit Kumar, Bikash Ghose, Venugopal Rao Soma   +4 more
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Determination of 16 Typical Chlorinated Persistent Organic Pollutants in Groundwater by Gas Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry

Yankuang ceshi, 2013
9 kinds of organochlorine pesticides (α-HCH, β-HCH, γ-HCH, δ-HCH, hexachlorobenzene, p,p′-DDE, p,p′-DDD, o,p′-DDT and p,p′-DDT) and 7 kinds of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB 28, PCB 52, PCB 101, PCB 118, PCB 138, PCB 153 and PCB 180) were the target ...
SONG Shu-ling, GUO Xiao-chen, HU Xiao-jian, LI Hong-zhi   +3 more
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Insights Into the Biodegradation of Lindane (γ-Hexachlorocyclohexane) Using a Microbial System

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Lindane (γ-hexachlorocyclohexane) is an organochlorine pesticide that has been widely used in agriculture over the last seven decades. The increasing residues of lindane in soil and water environments are toxic to humans and other organisms.
Wenping Zhang, Wenping Zhang, Ziqiu Lin, Ziqiu Lin, Shimei Pang, Shimei Pang, Pankaj Bhatt, Pankaj Bhatt, Shaohua Chen, Shaohua Chen   +9 more
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DISPOSAL OF POISONOUS ORGANIC HALIDES BY USING THE ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD: DFT SIMULATION [PDF]

Chemistry Journal of Moldova: General, Industrial and Ecological Chemistry, 2016
Geometry optimizations at the UBP86/6-311++G** level of electronic structure theory have been performed for DDT, β-hexachlorocyclohexane, and heptachlor organic polychlorides as well for their positive and negative ions.
Tudor Spataru, Francisco Fernandez, Joseph W. Sista, Petru Spataru, Igor Povar   +4 more
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Pollution, stress response, and obesity: A systematic review

Obesity Reviews, Volume 26, Issue 5, May 2025.
Summary Limited literature addresses the association between pollution, stress, and obesity, and knowledge synthesis on the associations between these three topics has yet to be made. Two reviewers independently conducted a systematic review of MEDLINE, Embase, and Web of Science Core Collection databases to identify studies dealing with the effects of
Sandra El Kouche, Sarah Halvick, Chloe Morel, Radu‐Corneliu Duca, An van Nieuwenhuyse, Jonathan D. Turner, Nathalie Grova, David Meyre   +7 more
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Assessing HCH isomer uptake in Alnus glutinosa: implications for phytoremediation and microbial response

Scientific Reports
Although the pesticide hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) and its isomers have long been banned, their presence in the environment is still reported worldwide.
Aday Amirbekov, Stanislava Vrchovecka, Jakub Riha, Ivan Petrik, David Friedecky, Ondrej Novak, Miroslav Cernik, Pavel Hrabak, Alena Sevcu   +8 more
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The 2023 European Union report on pesticide residues in food

EFSA Journal, Volume 23, Issue 5, May 2025.
Abstract Under European Union legislation (Article 32, Regulation (EC) No 396/2005), the European Food Safety Authority publishes an annual report assessing the pesticide residue levels in food. In 2023, as part of the EU‐coordinated multiannual control programme subset, 13,246 samples placed on the European market were analysed, with a 1.0% found to ...
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Luis Carrasco Cabrera, Giulio Di Piazza, Bruno Dujardin, Emanuela Marchese, Paula Medina Pastor   +5 more
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Distribution of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and hexachlorocyclohexane in urban soils and risk assessment

Journal of Xenobiotics, 2012
This study deals with the distribution of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanes (DDTs) and hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) in urban soils, their possible sources and probabilistic human and environmental health risk. The average concentrations of total HCHs and
Bhupander Kumar, Meenu Mishra, Virendra Kumar Verma, Sanjay Kumar, Chandra Shekhar Sharma   +4 more
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Hexachlorocyclohexane and DDT in marine organisms from the Bering and the Okhotsk Seas

Известия ТИНРО, 2014
Organochlorine pesticides (HCHs and DDT) are harmful and toxic substances affected biota. HCHs and DDT are still used as pesticides in the Southern Hemisphere and from there can reach the North Pacific due to atmospheric transfer.
Vasily Yu. Tsygankov, Margarita D. Boyarova, Olga N. Lukyanova, Nadezhda K. Khristoforova   +3 more
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