organochlorine pesticides

If the concentration of total organochlorine pesticides exceeds 0.

The compound has been shown to be one of the most abundant organochlorine pesticides in the global atmosphere.

Delayed deposition of organochlorine pesticides at a temperate glacier.

The organochlorine pesticides detected in the study published in have long been banned in the European Union.

Organochlorine pesticides are conventionally used in commercial wolfberry cultivation to mitigate destruction of the delicate berries by insects.

Determinants of serum polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides measured in women from the child health and development study cohort, 1963-1967.

This strategy also addresses how Australia will manage HCB waste and organochlorine pesticides.

The recognition of negative impacts on health has stimulated the implementation of multiple legislative policies in regards to the use and disposal of organochlorine pesticides.

American burying beetle populations, Mr. Raithel noted, "were largely gone 25 years before organochlorine pesticides were broadly applied."

Animal studies show that organochlorine pesticides, including beta-HCH, are neurotoxic, cause oxidative stress, and damage the brain's dopaminergic system.

The organochlorine pesticides, like DDT, aldrin, and dieldrin are extremely persistent and accumulate in fatty tissue.

There is significant contamination by ions of mercury and copper, organochlorine pesticides, phenols, petroleum products and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

A number of the organochlorine pesticides have been banned from most uses worldwide, and globally they are controlled via the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants.

Breast cancer risk in relation to adipose concentrations of organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in Long Island, New York.

Like related organochlorine pesticides, it is lipophilic and thusly it tends to accumulate in fatty tissues of organisms, mainly those dwelling in water.

The Peregrine Falcon became an endangered species because of the use of organochlorine pesticides, especially DDT, during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.

Besides dioxins and PCBs, the study reports on the presence of residues of organochlorine pesticides, the use of which has long been prohibited in the EU.

In the 1940s organomercury and organochlorine pesticides, including DDT, DDD, dieldrin, 2,4-D and paraquat, were produced.

In the 1960s and 1970s, organochlorine pesticides were responsible for declines-particularly in Canada-due to eggshell thinning and subsequent brood failure, and compromising the immune system of adults.

In Cokayne's day, the otter would have been common throughout Britain, but its numbers collapsed in the mid-20th century, hunting being rather less to blame than organochlorine pesticides and loss of habitat.

The early re-colonisation was very slow, because of contamination of the food chain by organochlorine pesticides, and the activities of egg collectors, and had reached only 14 pairs by 1976.

The Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project is specifically designed to examine the association between two environmental exposures and breast cancer, organochlorine pesticides and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

For example, about half of an organophosphate pesticide will wash off in a tenth of an inch of rain, whereas only about 2 percent of organochlorine pesticides will wash away.

The northeast Nile Delta region has a high incident rate of pancreatic cancer that is believed to be from high levels of heavy metals and organochlorine pesticides found in the soil and water.

Research has shown that nanoscale iron particles can be effectively used to treat several forms of ground contamination, including grounds contaminated by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), chlorinated organic solvents, and organochlorine pesticides.