Sentences with phrase «organochlorine pesticides in»

«PCBs, PCDD / Fs, and organochlorine pesticides in farmed Atlantic salmon from Maine, eastern Canada, and Norway, and wild salmon from Alaska.

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The study of 50 pregnant women found detectable levels of organochlorines in all of the women participating in the study — including DDT, PCBs and other pesticides that have been banned from use for more than 30 years.

After a lengthy scientific review, the United States last week decided to ban the use of endosulfan, an inexpensive organochlorine pesticide that builds up in the environment.

The EPA, declaring that endosulfan is unsafe for farm workers, moves to ban one of the last organochlorine pesticides left in the U.S. Like DDT, endosulfan accumulates in the environment and in the bodies of people and wildlife, and is transported around the world to remote places

«Although most researchers in Africa are concerned with organochlorine pesticides — especially DDT which is still used for malaria control — PCB contamination should not be overlooked,» Klánová told Nature.

Declaring that endosulfan is unsafe, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it is about to ban one of the last organochlorine pesticides still used in the United States.

Forty percent of all pesticides used worldwide are from the organochlorine class of chemicals, including the now - banned pesticide DDT, made infamous in Rachel Carson's seminal work Silent Spring.

«A wide variety of organochlorine compounds and pesticides have an effect on the thyroid hormones in plasma, tissues and deiodinase enzymes, which are in charge of stabilising the thyroid hormones in tissues.»

Although not much is known about its toxicity, «The chemical's structure is similar to that of organochlorine pesticides such as heptachlor, chlordane, aldrin, and mirex, all of which have been either banned or restricted in the U.S.»:: ES&T;, see also earlier ES&T;