Soil constitutes the central environmental compartment that, primarily due to anthropogenic
activities, is the recipient of several contaminants. Among these are organochlorine …

Pesticides are applied widely to protect plants from disease, weeds and insect damage, and
usually come into contact with soil, where they undergo a variety of transformations that …

Pesticides are widely applied and they can produce a variety of transformation products
(TPs), through different pathways and mechanisms. Nowadays there is a growing interest …

In order to reduce the amount of sample to be collected and the time consumed in the
analytical process, a broad range of analytes should be preferably considered in the same …

This work reviews recently developed methodologies for multiclass pesticide residue
analysis in soil and evaluates them under the focus of Green Analytical Chemistry principles …

In many drinking water treatment plants, the chlorination process is one of the main
techniques used for the disinfection of water. This disinfecting treatment leads to the …

This review focused on the green microextraction methods used for the extraction of
pesticides from the environmental and food samples. Microextraction techniques have been …

Ultrasonic solvent extraction of the organochlorine pesticides (OCP) including α-, β-, γ-and Δ-
hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), heptachlor, aldrin, o, p′-DDE, dieldrin, p, p′-DDE, p, p …

Multiple headspace-solid phase microextraction (MHS-SPME) is a recently developed
technique for the quantification of analytes in solid samples that avoids the matrix effect. This …

The photocatalysis process has been employed to degrade various organic micropollutants
(OMPs). The photocatalytic degradation of pristine photocatalysts can be enhanced by …