Thiabendazole (TBZ), imazalil (IMZ), ortho-phenylphenol (OPP), diphenylamine (DPA), and ethoxyquin (EQ) are used in fruit-packaging plants (FPP) with the stipulation that wastewaters produced by their application would be depurated on site. However, no such treatment systems are currently in place, leading FPP to dispose of their effluents in agricultural land. We investigated the dissipation o...

Purpose: Scientists have identified a plenty of bacterial strains having ability to degrade pesticide residues accumulated in the environment. Due wide variation chemical properties pesticides, single strain may not be versatile. Hence, identification bioremediation various bacteria is important. This review focused on understanding and explaining role soil detoxification ability. Research Meth...

Endosulfan is a broad-spectrum cyclodiene insecticide that has been used extensively for over 30 years on a variety of crops. It is a mixture of two stereoisomers, a and b endosulfan, in a ratio of 7 : 3. Its toxicity is extremely high against fish and aquatic invertebrates, and it has increasingly been implicated in mammalian gonadal toxicity, genotoxicity and neurotoxicity; however, endosulfa...

Pesticides have been used extensively in agriculture to control pests and soil-borne diseases. Most of these pesticides can persist soil harmful concentrations due their intrinsic characteristics interactions with soil. Soil solarization has demonstrated enhance pesticide degradation under field conditions. Recently, ozonation suggested as a feasible method for reducing the load agricultural fi...

Biopesticides serve as second-hand biocontrol agents against harmful microbial growth and supplement organic pesticides in several agricultural systems. In the production of alternative controls for synthetic insecticides to kill insect pests, biotechnology may also condone them. Bacterial fungal such Ampelomyces quisqualis Trichoderma spp., (a control agent grape powdery mildew) Bacillus subti...

World wide crop losses without the use of pesticides and other non-chemical control strategies is estimated to be about 70% of crop production, amounting to U.S. $ 400 billion. Many insect pest families are known which cause serious damage to agriculture crops. Insect pest menace is one of the major factors that destabilize crop productivity in agricultural ecosystems. They are responsible for ...

Children's Exposure to Pesticides Exposures of Farmworkers and Their Families Potential Health Effects of Exposure to OP Pesticides Effects of Acute Exposure to OP and Carbamate Pesticides in Children Long-Term Sequelae of Acute Exposure to OP and Carbamate Pesticides in Adults Effects of Chronic Exposure to OP and Carbamate Pesticides in Adults Animal Evidence for Neurodevelopmental Effects of...

Pesticides belonging to pyrethroid group are widely used in agricultural fields to check pest infestation in different crops for enhanced food production. In spite of beneficial effects, non-judicious use of pesticides imposes harmful effect on human health as their residues reach different food materials and ground water via leaching, percolation and bioaccumulation. Looking into the potential...

Insecticides are the toxic substances that are used to kill insects. The use of insecticides is believed to be one of the major factors behind the increase in agricultural productivity in the 20th century. The organophosphates are now the largest and most versatile class of insecticide used and Malathion is the predominant type utilized. The accumulation of Malathion in environment is the bigge...

Some of the factors that influence the persistence of pesticides are common to both plants and soils. These are, firstly, the characteristics of the pesticide, including its over-all stability either as parent compound or metabolites, its volatility, solubility, formulation, and the method and site of application. A second group includes the environmental factors, particularly temperature, prec...