ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2018
Serum concentrations of selected organochlorine pesticides in a Lebanese population and their associations to sociodemographic, anthropometric and dietary factors: ENASB study.
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- Human Biomonitoring of Environmental and Occupational Exposures by GC-MS and Gas Sensor Systems: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Investigating PCBs and OCPs in Lebanese Yogurt: National Contamination Patterns and Health Risk Assessment.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Association between dietary quality indices and serum polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides levels among Lebanese adults.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Article
- Differential Bioaccumulation Patterns of α, β-Hexachlorobenzene and Dicofol in Adipose Tissue from the GraMo Cohort (Southern Spain).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Suggested policy and legislation reforms to reduce deleterious effect of pesticides in Lebanon.Heliyon · 2020Review
- Stock status, urban public perception, and health risk assessment of obsolete pesticide in Northern Ethiopia.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2020Article
- The use of fast molecular descriptors and artificial neural networks approach in organochlorine compounds electron ionization mass spectra classification.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2019Article
- Environmental and human health issues related to pesticides: from usage and environmental fate to impact.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2018Article
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Abstract
Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) were banned by the Stockholm Convention many years ago; however, they are still detected in the environment due to their high persistence, their current illegal use, and their import from countries where they have not been banned. We evaluated the serum concentrations of selected OCPs (hexachlorobenzene (HCB), β-hexachlorocyclohexanes (β-HCH), p,p'-dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and its metabolite p,p'-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) in a sample of Lebanese adults using gas chromatography coupled to an ion trap mass spectrometer detector. The mean concentrations of HCB, β-HCH, DDT, and DDE were 7.1, 8.6, 2.1, and 18.9 ng/g of lipids, respectively, and the major contributor among the four OCPs was DDE. The OCP levels in the present study were in general lower than the values observed in several countries worldwide and their concentrations at the 95th percentile were lower than the biomonitoring equivalents (BEs) excluding any appreciable health risk. We observed an inverse association between HCB concentrations and body mass index (BMI) as well as HCB, β-HCH, and DDE levels, and smoking habits. Milk consumption however was positively associated with an increased serum level of β-HCH. This study, which was the first to investigate OCP serum levels in a Lebanese population, provides a baseline to which future measurements can be compared.
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