RESIDUES OF DDT AND ITS METABOLITES IN HUMAN-BLOOD SAMPLES IN DELHI, INDIA
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 54 (3), 349-351
Abstract
Blood samples from 182 people in Delhi, India, were examined for DDT residues. All except 8 contained DDT and its metabolites. The average total DDT concentration in the whole blood ranged from 0.177-0.683 mg/l in males and from 0.166-0.329 mg/l in females. The DDT metabolites detected were p,p''-DDE, p,p''-DDD and o,p''-DDT. DDE accounted for most of the total DDT.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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