Contaminant containment measures are often necessary to prevent or minimize offsite
movement of contaminated materials for disposal or other purposes when they can be …

Though the use of pesticides has offered significant economic benefits by enhancing the
production and yield of food and fibers and the prevention of vector-borne diseases …

Agricultural development continues to remain the most important objective of Indian
planning and policy. In the process of development of agriculture, pesticides have become …

Accurate and complete data on the global atmospheric releases (emissions) of individual
PCB congeners are essential to study source–receptor relationships and contamination …

The differential environmental fates and toxicities of the various hexachlorocyclohexane
(HCH) isomers including lindane and isomers in the technical mixture will be the focus of …

Mothers' milk from Chennai (formerly Madras), India and three other places Perungudi, the
municipal dumping site of south Chennai area (situated at the suburb of Chennai) …

Lindane is a highly persistent chlorinated pesticide and a potent endocrine disruptor. The
strong electron withdrawing property of the chlorine atoms results in a relatively low …

For legacy and emerging persistent organic pollutants (POPs), surprisingly little is still known
in quantitative terms about their global sources and emissions. Atmospheric transport has …

Recent studies of contaminants under the Canadian Northern Contaminants Program (NCP)
have substantially enhanced our understanding of the pathways by which contaminants …

The global distribution of 22 potentially harmful organochlorine compounds was
investigated in more than 200 tree bark samples from 90 sites worldwide. High …