Human health risk assessment, congener specific analysis and spatial distribution pattern of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) through rice crop from selected districts of Punjab Province, Pakistan

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 511, Issue , 2015, Pages 354-361

  Mumtaz, Mehvish ^a   Qadir, Abdul ^a   Mahmood, Adeel ^b   Mehmood, Andleeb ^c   Malik, Riffat Naseem ^b   Li, Jun ^d   Yousaf, Zubaida ^e   Jamil, Nadia ^a   Shaikh, Irfan Ahmed ^a   Ali, Habib ^f   Zhang, Gan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c MIRPUR UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MUST   (Pakistan)

^d GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^e LAHORE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^f PAKISTAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

EDI; Human health; OCPs; Pakistan; Punjab; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; INSECTICIDES; ISOMERS; SCREENING;

CONGENER SPECIFIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN HEALTH; HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT; OCPS; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; PAKISTAN; PUNJAB; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHANE; 1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; 1,1,1 TRICHLORO 2 (2 CHLOROPHENYL) 2 (4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHANE; CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; HEPTACHLOR; LINDANE; MIREX; MITOTANE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; PESTICIDE; WATER POLLUTANT;

CARCINOGEN; CROP; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD SAFETY; HEALTH RISK; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PESTICIDE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH HAZARD; PAKISTAN; POPULATION RISK; RICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; WATER POLLUTANT;

PAKISTAN; PUNJAB [PAKISTAN];

ANIMALIA; ORYZA SATIVA;

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; ORYZA SATIVA; PAKISTAN; PESTICIDES; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84920135178     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.12.030     Document Type: Article

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