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Pesticide residues in air from coastal environment, south India
R B Rajendran1, V K Venugopalan, R Ramesh
1Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Annamalai University, Parangipettai, India. babu@protect2.nire.go.jp
Chemosphere
|October 16, 1999
Abstract:
Chlorinated pollutants are transported through atmosphere. India is one of the point source countries for these pollutants [1]. In this study the concentration of DDT and HCH were evaluated in air from a tropical coastal environmental (at Parangipettai--southeast coast of India). DDT and HCH ranged in concentrations from 0.16 to 5.93 ng m-3 and 1.45 to 35.6 ng m-3 respectively. The ban on DDT in agriculture is reflected from the low residue levels recorded, predominantly by metabolites other than the parent compounds.