Ecology, Environment and Conservation Paper

CHLORPYRIFOS: AN EMERGING CONTAMINANT IN NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND ITS TREATMENT METHODS

Shrikant B. Randhavane and Anjali K. Khambete

Abstract

Modern agricultural practices are need of an hour to meet ever increasing population and its food demand. In doing so, excess usage of pesticides as food security has resulted in its presence and has contaminated almost every part of our pristine environmental matrices. Pesticide waste management has raised a great deal of concern in scientific circles. Chlorpyrifos is broad spectrum, moderately toxic, widely used around the world to control pest insects in agricultural, commercial, residential, etc settings. Its exposure may lead to acute toxicity at higher doses, persistent health effects following acute poisoning or from long-term exposure to low doses, and developmental effects in fetuses and children even at very small doses. Paper focuses on general insight of Chlorpryrifos pesticide and various treatment methodologies that are adopted to treat Chlorpyrifos pesticide.