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Distribution and health risk assessment of organochlorine pesticides in agricultural soils of the Aghili plain, Southwest Iran

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Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) are a well-known group of persistent man-made chemicals. In the present study, 55 agricultural soil samples were collected from the Aghili plain and analyzed for 20 OCPs with the aim of determining contamination profiles, spatial distribution, influencing factors and carcinogenic risks. Among different OCPs, only aldrin, dieldrin, 4,4-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene, and 4,4-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane were detected. The other OCPs dosages were lower than the detection limit in all samples. The results of cancer risk assessment demonstrated no carcinogenic risks to an exposed population.

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Acknowledgements

This study was a part of a funded MS. thesis of Zoleikha Atashi and was financially supported by the Environmental Technologies Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences (Grant no. ETRC9528).

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  1. Environmental Technologies Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

    Sahand Jorfi & Mehdi Ahmadi

  2. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

    Sahand Jorfi, Zoleikha Atashi & Mehdi Ahmadi

  3. Systems Environmental Health and Energy Research Center, The Persian Gulf Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran

    Razegheh Akhbarizadeh

  4. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Pharmacy School, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR, Iran

    Zahra Nazari Khorasgani

  5. Nanotechnology Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR, Iran

    Zahra Nazari Khorasgani

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Jorfi, S., Atashi, Z., Akhbarizadeh, R. et al. Distribution and health risk assessment of organochlorine pesticides in agricultural soils of the Aghili plain, Southwest Iran. Environ Earth Sci 78, 603 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-019-8605-5

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