Organochlorine Contaminants in Some Agricultural Products from Serbia

Biljana Škrbić, Julijana Gyura, Zita Šereš, and Nataša Djurišić-Mladenović

Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

Corresponding author: Prof. Biljana Škrbić
    Faculty of Technology
    University of Novi Sad
    Bulevar cara Lazara 1
    21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
    Telephone: (+381) 21 450288
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    E-mail: biljana@tehnol.ns.ac.yu

CEJOEM 2005, Vol.11. No.2.: 93–101

Key words:
Organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, wheat, wheat bran, sunflower oil, sugar beet and its products

Abbreviations:

DDD
DDE
DDT
HCH
GC/ECD

= dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethane
= dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethylene
= dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane
= hexachlorocyclohexane
= gas chromatography/electron capture detector

OCCs
OCPs
PAHs
PCBs
.

= organochlorine compounds
= organochlorine pesticides
= polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
= polychlorinated biphenyls
.

Abstract:
Industrial activities, traffic, and various agrochemical measures inseparable from the modern way of living are major sources of many toxic organic compounds in the environment. Although some of them, like organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), have been removed from the market due to their health and environmental effects and their persistence, they are still ubiquitous contaminants. Therefore, they have become a major issue of environmental research in order to investigate the level of their occurrence, biochemical and toxic effects, human exposure, and health risk assessment. The aim of this work was to determine the contents of OCPs and PCBs in wheat grain, bran, edible oil, and sugar beet and its products due to control their potential influence on human health. Samples were prepared by a proposed modification of method for isolation of OCPs and PCBs. Qualitative and quantitative analyses were done by GC/ECD. Contents of determined OCPs and PCBs in the investigated samples were compared with data from the literature.

Received: 27 December 2004
Accepted: 12 July 2005

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