Pesticides Removal Using Actinomycetes and Plants

ANALÍA ALVAREZ ; MARÍA S. FUENTES; CLAUDIA S. BENIMELI ; SERGIO A. CUOZZO; JULIANA M. SAEZ; MARÍA J. AMOROSO

Fungy as bioremediations

Springer

Lugar: Teheran; Año: 2011; p. 227 - 244

Organochlorine pesticides have been used extensively all over the world for public health and agricultural purposes. Currently, their use is being phased out because of their toxicity, environmental persistence and accumulation in the food chain. Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) is one of the most extensively used organochlorine pesticides for both agriculture and medical purposes. Though the use of technical mixture containing eight stereoisomers was banned in several advanced countries in the 1970s, many developing countries continue to use lindane (gama-HCH) for economic reasons. Thus, new sites are continuously being contaminated by gama-HCH and its stereoisomers (Blais et al. 1998; Kidd et al. 2008). Although only lindane is insecticidal, HCH as a group are toxic and considered as potential carcinogens (Walker et al. 1999).