Sentence examples for organochlorine from inspiring English sources
noun
Any of very many chlorine substituted organic compounds, many of which are insecticides etc.
On the positive side, though, Mr Bjordal adds that should regulators decide that organochlorine levels in fish feed are a problem, the industry has the technology to reduce them.
Other wildlife is thus unlikely to be harmed, and no noxious organochlorine compounds are formed.
Following the banning or great reduction in the use of most organochlorine pesticides, populations have rebounded in virtually every part of the world and now exceed historical levels in many regions.
The organic compounds that pose the greatest occupational hazards are various aromatic, aliphatic, and halogenated hydrocarbons and the organophosphates, carbamates, organochlorine compounds, and bipyridylium compounds used as pesticides.
The process began around 1956 and was almost certainly caused by the introduction of powerful organochlorine pesticides such as aldrin and dieldrin.
The number of peregrines in the UK has increased more than fourfold since the 1960s when the population was devastated by the effects of organochlorine pesticide, which thinned the walls of their eggs and brought numbers down to about 360 pairs.
Organochlorines are unpleasant chemicals such as dioxins and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) produced by industry that hang around in the environment.
ACCORDING to a paper published in Science on January 9th, levels of organochlorines in farmed salmon are so high in Scottish output that people should eat less than half a portion of salmon a month.
That is so in this case, says Jeffery Foran, one of the authors of the paper, president of an advocacy group, Citizens for a Better Environment, and a professor of natural resources and the environment at the University of Michigan: all four organochlorines studied cause liver cancer through the same mechanism.
A bargain Return of the wrinklies Salmon a-slumping Fishy science Breathe again Life and death Unlovely Rita Blair-baiting Reprints Related items Fish farming: Salmon a-slumpingJan 15th 2004 Fish farming: The promise of a blue revolutionAug 7th 2003 Salmon farming: Sewage with your salmon, sir?Jun 21st 2001The EPA method adds the different organochlorines together.
The oceans are increasingly acidifying; warmer water holds less oxygen; and combined with overfishing and pollution from heavy metals, organochlorines and plastics, the outlook is darker than ever.
