Article: Evaluation of daily dietary intake of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) and benzene hexachloride (BHC) in India.

THE USE of pesticides is said to be an important contributing factor to the agricultural revolution, resulting in increased quality and quantity of food. In India, dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) and benzene hexachloride (BHC), two organochlorine insecticides, have been used for ensuring better agricultural production. Food has been recognized as the main source of man's exposure to these insecticides[1]; therefore, monitoring of these pesticides in food samples is an important step in evaluating the magnitude of their dietary intake and relative risk, if any, following their application.[2-4] The total diet study, also known as the market basket study, is the ...

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