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Shellfish Tissue Monitoring in Piscataqua Region Estuaries 2013 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Originally conducted by the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment from 1993 to 2011, the Gulfwatch Program examined trends in the water quality of the Gulf of Maine by monitoring toxic contaminant concentrations in the tissues of shellfish ...
Trowbridge, Philip R., Wood, Matthew A.
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Occurrence and Human Health Implications of Legacy Organochlorine Pesticides and Their Metabolites in Fruits and Vegetables of Bangladesh

open access: yesFood Safety and Health, EarlyView.
Multiple OCP isomers and/or metabolites along with their parent compounds were detected in commonly consumed fruits and vegetables of Bangladesh, possibly attributed to both recently and historically applied OCPs. However, all the detected values were below 0.01 mg/kg, indicating no potential human health risks through dietary intake. ABSTRACT Globally,
Kazi Sanjana Adnen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of organic pollutants on phenotype and gene expression in human breast cancer cells

open access: yesJournal of Applied Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human exposure to industrial chemical compounds is widespread and, although often beneficial, prolonged contact may contribute to disease development, including cancer. While many studies have shown organic pollutants (OP) are cytotoxic, few have explored how long‐term exposure alters cell phenotype.
Camila Confortin   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Development on the Electrochemical Detection of Selected Pesticides: A Focused Review

open access: yesSensors, 2020
Pesticides are heavily used in agriculture to protect crops from diseases, insects, and weeds. However, only a fraction of the used pesticides reaches the target and the rest slips through the soil, causing the contamination of ground- and surface water ...
Jafar Safaa Noori   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

European cooperation to tackle the legacies of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) and lindane

open access: yesEmerging Contaminants, 2022
Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) waste isomers from lindane production are the largest single POPs legacy, with an estimated 4.8 to 7.4 million tonnes of disposed waste.
John Vijgen   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ecotoxicologie du lindane et de la deltaméthrine en milieu aquatique [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
La persistance dans l'eau, en présence ou en absence de sédiment, la toxicité aiguë et les capacités de bioconcentration du lindane et de la deltaméthrine ont été étudiées dans des conditions de laboratoire.
Thybaud, E.
core   +1 more source

The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, 2026.
Abstract For decades, agro‐industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop‐induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address these—produces uneven chemical ...
Soledad Castro‐Vargas, Marion Werner
wiley   +1 more source

Simultaneous Determination by Gas Chromatography of Lindane and Carbaryl in Combined Formulations

open access: yesE-Journal of Chemistry, 2011
A gas chromatographic method developed and validated for simultaneous determination of lindane and carbaryl for quality evaluation of lindane-carbaryl granule, using a glass capillary HP5 column (30 m x 0.32 mm; 0.25 μm), temperature programming with ...
Indrajit Sen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

From arsenic to DDT: Pesticides, Fascism and the invisibility of toxic risks in the early years of Francoist Spain (1939-1953)

open access: yesCulture & History Digital Journal, 2021
This paper reviews the way in which Spanish agriculture climbed onto the pesticide treadmill. We claim that Fascist policies and expert advice assembled in the early 1940s accelerated the introduction of pesticides into Spanish agriculture and promoted ...
Silvia Pérez-Criado   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

1978 Pesticide Use on Greenhouse Vegetable Crops in Ohio [PDF]

open access: yes, 1979
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Curtner, Robert L.   +2 more
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