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Detection, Treatment and Remediation for Organochlorines [PDF]

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2023
Organochlorine pollutants are a class of compounds formed by combining chlorine atoms with carbon atoms, and common organochlorine pollutants include chloroform and hexachlorocyclohexane.
Liu Junyuan
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Pesticide Residues in Foods in Ghana: A Systematic Review [PDF]

Health Science Reports
Background and Aim Pesticide use has surged globally to enhance agricultural productivity. However, this reliance, particularly in developing countries like Ghana, has raised concerns about pesticide residues in foods and their potential health impacts ...
Wisdom K. Ahiabor, Eric S. Donkor
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Agricultural Use of Pesticides in Galicia (NW Spain) During the 20th Century: Inventory of Active Substances and Their Geographic Distribution

Spanish Journal of Soil Science, 2023
Production of agricultural pesticides underwent an exponential increase during the 20th century. Many of these pesticides have since been prohibited because they are toxic and because they are bioaccumulated and persist in the environment.
Raquel Chaves, Carmela Monterroso
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Prenatal Exposure to Chemical Mixtures and Cognitive Flexibility among Adolescents

Toxics, 2021
Cognitive flexibility, the ability to smoothly adapt to changing circumstances, is a skill that is vital to higher-level executive functions such as problem-solving, planning, and reasoning.
Anna V. Oppenheimer, David C. Bellinger, Brent A. Coull, Marc G. Weisskopf, Susan A. Korrick   +4 more
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Organochlorine pesticide levels in Greek patients with Parkinson’s disease

Toxicology Reports, 2020
Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease, mostly presenting with characteristic motor symptoms. Organochlorines (OC) are a class of widely-used pesticides that have been included among the list of environmental factors ...
Efthimios Dardiotis, Athina-Maria Aloizou, Evagelos Sakalakis, Vasileios Siokas, Michalis Koureas, Georgia Xiromerisiou, Efthymia Petinaki, Martin Wilks, Aristidis Tsatsakis, Christos Hadjichristodoulou, Leonidas Stefanis, Georgios M. Hadjigeorgiou   +11 more
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Organochlorines Accumulation in Caged Mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis—Possible Influence of Biological Parameters

Applied Sciences, 2020
The accumulation of organochlorines (OCs) in mussel tissue depends on the physiological and biochemical status of the organism and its interaction with the environment.
Vesna Milun, Dijana Grgas, Sanja Radman, Tea Štefanac, Jasmina Ibrahimpašić, Tibela Landeka Dragičević   +5 more
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Support Vector Machines for Biomarkers Detection in in vitro and in vivo Experiments of Organochlorines Exposure

TecnoLógicas, 2021
Metabolomic studies generate large amounts of data, whose complexity increases if they are derived from in vivo experiments. As a result, analysis methods highly used in metabolomics, such as Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis (PLS-DA), can have
Jorge Alejandro Lopera-Rodríguez, Martha Zuluaga, Jorge Alberto Jaramillo-Garzón   +2 more
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Prenatal Exposure to Chemical Mixtures and Inhibition among Adolescents

Toxics, 2021
Inhibition, one of the building blocks of executive function, is the ability to focus one’s attention despite interference from external stimuli. It undergoes substantial development during adolescence and may be susceptible to adverse impacts of ...
Anna V. Oppenheimer, David C. Bellinger, Brent A. Coull, Marc G. Weisskopf, Michele Zemplenyi, Susan A. Korrick   +5 more
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Assessment of pesticide residues in vegetables produced in central and eastern Ethiopia

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
BackgroundIn Ethiopia, pesticides are widely used in vegetable production. However, if used incorrectly they may harm consumers of vegetables contaminated with pesticide residues, as well as producers handling the pesticides and lead to ecological damage.
Getachew Dinede, Wubetu Bihon, Lina Gazu, Serge Foukmeniok Mbokou, Sisay Girma, Ramasamy Srinivasan, Ralph Roothaert, Delia Grace, Delia Grace, Habtamu Gashaw, Theodore J. D. Knight-Jones   +10 more
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Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic hazards associated with trace elements and organochlorines from fish consumption in tropical river watershed [PDF]

Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Trace elements and pesticide residues are among the crucial problems in the river Watershed ecosystem. The present study aimed to assess the health risk of trace elements and organochlorines to the local inhabitants from fish ...
D. Dwiyitno, F. Ariyani, G.R. Barokah, D. Yogaswara, R. Grandiosa, E. Frimawaty, H.E. Irianto, Y. Sani   +7 more
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