Four Microtine species, the f i e l d vole (Microtus agrestis), the continental vole (Microtus arvalis), the water vole (Arvicola terrestris) arid the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) are the most harmful rodents in forests, f i e l d s , orchards and gardens in Northern and Central Europe. Except for the l a t t e r they are a l l herbivorous, t h e i r food c o n s i s t i n g to a very lo...

Extensive preparation of samples before chromatographic analysis is usually the most time-consuming process in the determination of many organic compounds in environmental matrices. In the past, removal of some organic8 from aqueous ,mlution was commonly done by liquid/liquid extraction. However, the introduction of stable, covalently bonded reversed-phase sorbents now allows efficient removal ...

What’s Toxic, What’s Not is a great book and one that fills an unmet need for accurate information presented in a nontechnical fashion. This book is written for the general public. The goal is to present information about environmental hazards in the home, the workplace, the school, and the community in a language that is easily understood. The book deals with hazards that are commonly recogniz...

This report reviews data on chemical residues in Canadian waterfowl and gamebirds collected from across the country between 1987 and 1995 in order to: (i) obtain recent data on contaminants in gamebirds so that Health Canada could assess the risk to human health from eating those birds, and (ii) identify any potential avian health concerns related to the contaminant residue levels. Over 800 poo...

Introduction Poultry can be exposed to chemicals or biological products from a variety of sources such as medications, pesticides, equipment, or even building materials. Drug or chemical residues remaining in poultry at the time of slaughter can result in condemnation of the product and, if passed onto the consumer, will lower their confidence in the safety or wholesomeness of the poultry suppl...

We collected, examined, and analyzed 368 fish of seven species from 10 sites on rivers of the Rio Grande Basin (RGB) during late 1997 and early 1998 to document temporal and geographic trends in the concentrations of accumulative contaminants and to assess contaminant effects on the fish. Sites were located on the mainstem of the Rio Grande and on the Arroyo Colorado and Pecos River in Texas (T...

Dear fellow diabetes investigators, you, myself and our Editorin-Chief, Dr Hotta, have the same goal; to do something about the epidemic of diabetes in Asia. I will not show the numbers again, as you have seen enough; simply there are too many people around us with diabetes. Why there are so many? Professor Eung-Jin Kim, Honorary President of Korean Diabetes Association, told me that diabetes w...

We collected, examined, and analyzed 1378 fish of 22 species from 47 sites in the Mississippi River basin (MRB) during 1995 and from a reference site in 1996. The sampling sites in the MRB represented National Contaminant Biomonitoring Program (NCBP) stations situated at key points on major rivers and National WaterQuality Assessment Program (NAWQA) stations located on lower-order rivers and st...

introduction several hundred pesticides of different chemical compositions are currently used for agricultural and vector control purposes all over the world. because of their extensive use, they are detected in various environmental matrices, such as soil, water, and air. due to their lipophilic nature, hydrophobicity, and low chemical and biological degradation rates, organochlorine pesticide...