PMID- 34661833
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20221003
LR  - 20221003
IS  - 1573-2983 (Electronic)
IS  - 0269-4042 (Linking)
VI  - 44
IP  - 10
DP  - 2022 Oct
TI  - Past, present and future trends of selected pesticidal and industrial POPs in 
      Kuwait.
PG  - 3191-3214
LID - 10.1007/s10653-021-01113-8 [doi]
AB  - Given the background of current global initiatives for controlling persistent 
      organic pollutants (POPs), an overview of the scientific knowledge about the POPs 
      issues in Kuwait is presented in this study. Both acute and chronic exposure to 
      POPs can be associated with a wide range of deleterious health effects, including 
      illness and death. POPs have drawn significant political and scientific interest 
      in their fate and actions, particularly where local releases have resulted in 
      dispersed contamination far from the source regions. These concerns inevitably 
      led to the establishment of the Stockholm Convention (SC) on POPs. In recent 
      years, Kuwait has carried out a wide variety of environmental research, in 
      particular, on the monitoring of POPs in different matrices. The technological 
      development facilitated to achieve the opposite monitoring of pesticidal and 
      industrial POPs. The majority of these POPs are from a point source. Kuwait does 
      not have pesticide manufacturing facilities and has not produced pesticides for 
      POPs in the past. In the agriculture sector, Kuwait primarily imports pesticides 
      for pest and disease control. This review encompasses the historical presence and 
      current status of (pesticidal) organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and (industrial 
      POPs) PCBs and PBDEs in Kuwait based on the export, import, consumption and 
      usage. This research also contrasts pesticide and industrial POP data from 
      various Kuwaiti environmental matrices with data from other parts of Asia, the 
      EU, the USA and Africa.
CI  - (c) 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.
FAU - Alshemmari, Hassan
AU  - Alshemmari H
AD  - Environmental and Climate Program, Environment & Life Sciences Research Center, 
      Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, P.O. Box: 24885, Safat, 13109, State of 
      Kuwait. Alshemmari1@yahoo.com.
AD  - Stockholm Convention Regional Center for Capacity-Building and the Transfer of 
      Technology for West Asia (SCRC-Kuwait), Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, 
      P.O. Box: 24885, Safat, 13109, State of Kuwait. Alshemmari1@yahoo.com.
LA  - eng
GR  - P216-42WE-03/Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS)/
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20211018
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Environ Geochem Health
JT  - Environmental geochemistry and health
JID - 8903118
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers)
RN  - 0 (Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Pesticides)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/methods
MH  - *Environmental Pollutants/analysis
MH  - Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers
MH  - *Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/analysis
MH  - Kuwait
MH  - Persistent Organic Pollutants
MH  - *Pesticides/analysis
MH  - *Polychlorinated Biphenyls/analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Contamination
OT  - Kuwait
OT  - Persistent organic pollutants
OT  - Pesticides
OT  - Toxicology
EDAT- 2021/10/19 06:00
MHDA- 2022/10/04 06:00
CRDT- 2021/10/18 12:38
PHST- 2021/05/04 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/09/22 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/10/19 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/10/04 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/10/18 12:38 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s10653-021-01113-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s10653-021-01113-8 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Geochem Health. 2022 Oct;44(10):3191-3214. doi: 
      10.1007/s10653-021-01113-8. Epub 2021 Oct 18.