Background The food industry today is returning to natural foods after emphasizing the
processed products due to the higher consumer demand for foods which are well …

Surfactants are crystallizing a certain focus for consumer interest, and their market is still
expected to grow by 4 to 5% each year. Most of the time these surfactants are of petroleum …

Framed by efficiency and productivity narratives, technological innovations are conceived as
the inexorable pathway to agricultural development, obscuring the associated appropriation …

Only female mosquitoes consume blood giving them the opportunity to transmit deadly
human pathogens. Therefore, it is critical to remove females before conducting releases for …

The dithiocarbamate fungicide maneb (MB) has attracted interest due to increasing concern
of the negative health effects of pesticides, as well as its association with Parkinson's …

In the conceptual frame of “One Health”, the safety crisis caused by various toxicological
issues due to chemical exposure is of great concern. The urgent demand for …

Evidence is growing that human exposures to pesticides are contributing in a myriad of
complex ways to chronic disease. Regulatory and public health agencies have struggled for …

Bacteria secrete a type of compound called biosurfactant which plays an important role in
degradation of xenobiotic compounds. Based on their physico-chemical characteristics …

Organophosphate pesticides (OPPs) are one of the most widely used insecticides. OPPs
exert their neurotoxic effects by inhibiting acetylcholine esterase (AChE). Most of the gross …

Oxidative stress is known to be involved in development of numerous diseases including
cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, kidney and cancer. Thus, investigations that mimic …