PMID- 21139852
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110323
LR  - 20211020
IS  - 1660-4601 (Electronic)
IS  - 1661-7827 (Print)
IS  - 1660-4601 (Linking)
VI  - 7
IP  - 10
DP  - 2010 Oct
TI  - Current status and regulatory aspects of pesticides considered to be persistent 
      organic pollutants (POPs) in Taiwan.
PG  - 3615-27
LID - 10.3390/ijerph7103615 [doi]
AB  - Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) are capable of persisting in the environment, 
      transporting between phase media and accumulating to high levels, implying that 
      they could pose a risk of causing adverse effects to human health and the 
      environment. Consequently, most OCPs are designated as persistent organic 
      pollutants (POPs) and even as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The 
      objective of this paper was to review the current status of pesticide POPs in 
      Taiwan, including aldrin, chlordane, chlordecone, DDT, dieldrin, endrin, 
      heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene, alpha/beta-hexachlorocyclohexanes, lindane, mirex, 
      pentachloro-benzene, and toxaphene. The information about their environmental 
      properties, banned use, carcinogenic toxicity and environmental levels, can be 
      connected with the regulatory infrastructure, which has been established by the 
      joint-venture of the central competent authorities (i.e., Environmental 
      Protection Administration, Department of Health, Council of Agriculture, and 
      Council of Labor Affairs). The significant progress to be reported is that the 
      residual levels of these pesticide-POPs, ranging from trace amounts to a few ppb, 
      have declined notably in recent years.
FAU - Tsai, Wen-Tien
AU  - Tsai WT
AD  - Graduate Institute of Bioresources, National Pingtung University of Science and 
      Technology, Pingtung 912, Taiwan. wttsai@mail.npust.edu.tw
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20101012
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Int J Environ Res Public Health
JT  - International journal of environmental research and public health
JID - 101238455
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Pesticides)
SB  - IM
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - Humans
MH  - Pesticides/*analysis
MH  - Taiwan
PMC - PMC2996183
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Taiwan
OT  - environmental distribution
OT  - organochlorine pesticide (OCPs)
OT  - persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
OT  - regulatory control
EDAT- 2010/12/09 06:00
MHDA- 2011/03/24 06:00
PMCR- 2010/10/01
CRDT- 2010/12/09 06:00
PHST- 2010/08/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2010/09/02 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2010/09/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2010/12/09 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/12/09 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/03/24 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2010/10/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ijerph7103615 [pii]
AID - ijerph-07-03615 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/ijerph7103615 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2010 Oct;7(10):3615-27. doi: 
      10.3390/ijerph7103615. Epub 2010 Oct 12.