Evidence of chlordecone resurrection by glyphosate in French West Indies

P Sabatier, C Mottes, N Cottin, O Evrard… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The widespread use of pesticides in agriculture during the last several decades has
contaminated soils and different Critical Zone (CZ) compartments, defined as the area …

Analysis of chlordecone and its transformation products in environmental waters by a new SPME-GC-MS method and comparison with LLE-GC-MS/MS and LLE-LC …

DE Martin, D Muselet, H Kanso, P Alnajjar… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Among the numerous organochlorines (OCs) applied in the French West Indies (FWI),
chlordecone (hydrated form C 10 Cl 10 O 2 H 2; CLD) still causes major environmental …

Micropollutant content of Sargassum drifted ashore: arsenic and chlordecone threat assessment and management recommendations for the Caribbean

DA Devault, F Massat, J Lambourdière… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
Massive Sargassum beachings occurred since 2011 on Caribbean shores. Sargassum
inundation events currently involve two species, namely S. fluitans and S. natans circulating …

Efficient biodegradation of the recalcitrant organochlorine pesticide chlordecone under methanogenic conditions

DE Martin, P Alnajjar, D Muselet… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) has long been studied as an effective environmental and
economic strategy for treating matrices contaminated with recalcitrant pollutants. In the …

Transformation of the recalcitrant pesticide chlordecone by Desulfovibrio sp.86 with a switch from ring-opening dechlorination to reductive sulfidation activity

O Della-Negra, S Chaussonnerie, N Fonknechten… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The insecticide chlordecone has been used in the French West Indies for decades, resulting
in long term pollution, human health problems and social crisis. In addition to bacterial …

Chlordecone determination in serum by LC-MS/MS and the importance of low limit of detection

S El Balkhi, F Saint-Marcoux - Journal of Chromatography B, 2023 - Elsevier
Chlordecone is an organochlorine insecticide that has been used intensively from 1973 to
1993 in the French West Indies banana fields to control root borers. This use has resulted in …

mibPOPdb: an online database for microbial biodegradation of persistent organic pollutants

TR Ngara, P Zeng, H Zhang - Imeta, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial biodegradation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) is an attractive, ecofriendly,
and cost‐efficient clean‐up technique for reclaiming POP‐contaminated environments. In …

Elucidating the Fate of the Organochlorine Pesticide Chlordecone under Abiotic Reductive and Oxidative Processes: Kinetics, Transformation Products, and C vs Cl …

M Prieto-Espinoza, L Malleret, A Durand… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Pollution of French West Indies (FWI) soils by the organochlorine pesticide chlordecone
poses environmental and societal concerns due to its long-term persistence. Assessing …

Long-term pollution by chlordecone of tropical volcanic soils in the French West Indies: New insights and improvement of previous predictions

I Comte, A Pradel, A Crabit, C Mottes, LT Pak… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Chlordecone (CLD), was widely applied in banana fields in the French West Indies from
1972 to 1993. The WISORCH model was constructed to assess soil contamination by CLD …

Effect of home cooking processes on chlordecone content in beef and investigation of its by-products and metabolites by HPLC-HRMS/MS

D Martin, F Lobo, G Lavison-Bompard, T Guérin… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
Chlordecone (CLD) is a toxic organochlorine pesticide frequently used in the French West
Indies until 1993, resulting in a contamination of soil and food. This study assessed the …