Assessment of organochlorine pesticide pollution in Upper Awash Ethiopian state farm soils using selective pressurised liquid extraction

Chemosphere

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1181-1187

  Westbom, Rikard ^a   Hussen, Ahmed ^b   Megersa, Negussie ^b   Retta, Negussie ^b   Mathiasson, Lennart ^a   Björklund, Erland ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Organochlorine pesticides; Persistent organic pollutants; Selective pressurised liquid extraction; Soil

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; ATMOSPHERICS; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; EXTRACTION; FARMS; FLUIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDUSTRY; INSECTICIDES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROFLUIDICS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PESTICIDES; POLLUTION; SENSORS; SOILS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

AGRO INDUSTRIES; APPLIED (CO); DIELDRIN (DD); ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTION (ECD); ENDOSULFANS; ETHIOPIA; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; ORGANOCHLORINE (OC) PESTICIDES; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS (POPS); PESTICIDE USE; PRESSURISED LIQUID EXTRACTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL SAMPLES; STATE FARM (CO);

SOIL POLLUTION;

ALDRIN; CHLORPHENOTANE; DIELDRIN; ENDOSULFAN; ENDRIN; HEPTACHLOR; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DDT; DETECTION METHOD; ENDOSULFAN; ORGANOCHLORINE; PESTICIDE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SYNERGISM;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DRY WEIGHT; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTION; EXTRACTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIC POLLUTION; SELECTIVE PRESSURISED LIQUID EXTRACTION; SOIL POLLUTANT;

CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; ETHIOPIA; GEOGRAPHY; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; PESTICIDES; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

AFRICA; AWASH VALLEY; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 45449109991     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.03.041     Document Type: Article

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