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Mycoremediation of pesticide-contaminated soil: A review [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences
Pesticide contamination in soil presents significant environmental and health risks due to toxic residues. Traditional physical and chemical remediation methods are often expensive, ineffective at low concentrations, and generate toxic by-products ...
Pujiati, Fatimah, Ramadhan Rico, Ni’matuzahroh   +3 more
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Determination of Pesticide Residue in Brinjal Sample Using HPTLC and Developing a Cost-Effective Method Alternative to HPLC

Journal of Chemistry, 2020
Two analytical techniques HPLC (high performance liquid chromatography) and HPTLC (high performance thin layer chromatography) were validated to reveal the quality and quantity of pesticide residues (organophosphorus, organochlorine, and pyrethroids) in ...
Muzammil Hussain, Kiran Aftab, Munawar Iqbal, Shafaqat Ali, Muhammad Rizwan, Saad Alkahtani, Mohamed M. Abdel-Daim   +6 more
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The Synapse as a Central Target for Neurodevelopmental Susceptibility to Pesticides

Toxics, 2016
The developmental period of the nervous system is carefully orchestrated and highly vulnerable to alterations. One crucial factor of a properly-functioning nervous system is the synapse, as synaptic signaling is critical for the formation and maturation ...
Aimee Vester, W. Michael Caudle
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Organochlorine and organophosphate residues in lettuce and green pepper in Ghana's mega city

Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Over the last decade, pesticide use in agriculture has helped protect crops but left residues in food, posing health risks. This study analyzed organochlorine (Delta-HCH and Beta-HCH) and organophosphate (chlorpyrifos and dimethoate) residues in lettuce ...
Bernard Fei-Baffoe, Ernestina Gawu, Ebenezer Ebo Yahans Amuah, Alfredina Sangber-Dery, Lyndon Nii Adjiri Sackey, Nang Biyogue Douti   +5 more
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Associations between organochlorine pesticide mixtures and sex steroid hormones modified by age, gender and body mass index in the US 2011-2016: a quantile-based g-computation approach

, 2022
Juwel Rana, Angela Nyamekye Osei, Divine-Favour Chichenim Ofili, Edgar Ortíz‐Brizuela, Rakibul M. Islam, Alexander P. Keil   +5 more
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Mixture analysis of serum organochlorine pesticides concentrations and breast cancer in women from Northern Mexico

, 2023
Rodrigo Ugalde-Resano, Ángel Mérida Ortega, Mariano E. Cebrian García, Lizbeth López Carrillo   +3 more
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Preliminary Studies of Organochlorine Pesticides (OCPs) in Sediment, Water and Fish Samples from Ethiope River, Abraka Axis, Southern Nigeria [PDF]

, 2020
Oghenekohwiroro Edjere, J. E. Ukpebor, Samuel Emebu, F. E. Okieimen   +3 more
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Persistent pesticides: Accumulation, health risk assessment, management and remediation: An overview

Desalination and Water Treatment
Pesticides are being employed for large-scale agricultural purposes, leading to global environmental issues. Organochlorine pesticides (dieldrin, DDT, and aldrin) are persistent due to their stable nature. Organochlorine pesticide (OCPs) residues present
Iqbal Ansari, Maha M. El-Kady, Alaa El Din Mahmoud, Charu Arora, Aazad Verma, Ravikumar Rajarathinam, Priyanka Singh, Dakeshwar Kumar Verma, Jyoti Mittal   +8 more
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An Analytical Implication to Chlorides Determination in Catalytic Hydrodechlorination Reaction of DDT by Ion Chromatography [PDF]

Pakistan Journal of Analytical & Environmental Chemistry, 2009
Chemical degradation of Organochlorine pesticide (OCPs) in hydrodechlorination reactions were first systematically investigated using dichloro diphenyl trichloroethane (DDT) as the model pesticide.
Akhtar Shareef, Sami uz Zaman
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Is banning Persistent Organic Pollutants efficient? A quantitative and qualitative systematic review in bats

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
Among the several noxious characteristics of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) is a low environmental degradation rate, as they remain in the environment for decades.
Priscila Stéfani Monteiro-Alves, Elizabete Captivo Lourenço, Rodrigo Ornellas Meire, Helena Godoy Bergallo   +3 more
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