Pesticides that contain OCPs have been banned in many countries because exposure to them has been linked to cancer, coma, tremors, confusion, fatigue, headache, nausea, blurry vision and death. DDT was used as a pesticide for insect control in the U.S. until the EPA banned it in 1972. H...
DDT (Insecticide)LAKE sedimentsDichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane was used on Cape Cod, Massachusetts (USA), for mosquito and gypsy moth mitigation, from 1948 until the insecticide was banned in the 1970s. There are historical accounts of major spray events, and DDT was expected to have remained ...
The decline in the OCl concentrations in blubber was, on average, 25% during the two decades since polychlorinated biphenyls and DDT compounds were banned. Today, concentrations in blubber of Saimaa ringed seals are similar of those in ringed seals from the Arctic. Correspondingly in fish, the ...
The study highlights that though the OCPs analysed in this study are banned/restricted in India, still the implementation of the ban is poor and delayed and the country requires stricter adherence to its National Implementation Plan (NIP) on pesticides....
Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) are a subclass of MOFs that are composed of tetrahedral transition metal ions (e.g., Zn and Co) and imidazolate-type organic linkers, and they exhibit high water stability in aqueous media [28]. Owing to their features of microporosity, uniform structured...