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Research progress on remediation of organochlorine pesticide contamination in soil

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Deteriorated soil pollution has grown into a worldwide environmental concern over the years. Organochlorine pesticide (OCP) residues, featured with ubiquity, persistence and refractoriness, are one of the main pollution sources, causing soil degradation, fertility decline and nutritional imbalance, and severely impacting soil ecology. Furthermore, residual OCPs in soil may enter the human body along with food chain accumulation and pose a serious health threat. To date, many remediation technologies including physicochemical and biological ways for organochlorine pollution have been developed at home and abroad, but none of them is a panacea suitable for all occasions. Rational selection and scientific decision-making are grounded in in-depth knowledge of various restoration techniques. However, soil pollution treatment often encounters the interference of multiple factors (climate, soil properties, cost, restoration efficiency, etc.) in complex environments, and there is still a lack of systematic summary and comparative analysis of different soil OCP removal methods. Thus, to better guide the remediation of contaminated soil, this review summarized the most commonly used strategies for OCP removal, evaluated their merits and limitations and discussed the application scenarios of different methods. It will facilitate the development of efficient, inexpensive and environmentally friendly soil remediation strategies for sustainable agricultural and ecological development.

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This work was supported by grants from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (CIFMS, No. 2021-I2M-1-071).

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YR did investigation, writing—original draft preparation, visualization. GW, XB, YS and ZZ done writing—review and editing. JH contributed to conceptualization, supervision, funding acquisition, writing—review and editing.

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Correspondence to Jianping Han.

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Ren, Y., Wang, G., Bai, X. et al. Research progress on remediation of organochlorine pesticide contamination in soil. Environ Geochem Health 46, 25 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-023-01797-0

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