Monitoring of environmental pollution in Armenia and certain issues on reproductive health and cytogenetic status of organism
Tadevosian, N.S.; Muradian, S.A.; Tadevosian, A.E.; Khachatrian, B.G.; Dzhandzhapanian, A.N.; Parsadanian, G.G.; Pogosian, S.B.; Gevorkian, N.B.; Guloian, A.A.
Gigiena i Sanitariia 5: 48-51
2012
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-9900 PMID: 23243720 Document Number: 658335
Investigations aimed at the study on the state of environment from the point of pollution by organochlorine pesticides and their metabolites (HCH, DDT, DDE and DDD), as well as on possible unfavorable impact due to carriage of mentioned persistent organic pollutants (POPs) towards reproductive health and cytogenetic status of organism were done. In parallel, monitoring of possible mutagenic components of the environment was also conducted. As to obtained data, residues of organochlorine pesticides are continually determined with high frequency both in environmental media, agricultural foodstuffs and biomedia of rural population of observed region (Aragatsotn marz, Armenia). No changes in mutagenic background were registered. The represented results of the study make fragment of complex social-hygienic, monitoring investigations on environmental quality that would further serve as a platform for working out the recommendations on reduction of environmental pollution and improvement of health protection issues in Armenia.