Publications by authors named "Sovona Chatterjee"
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- Parabens are chemicals used to keep food, medicines, and personal care products fresh, but they can hurt the environment when not disposed of correctly.
- They have been found in water and packaged foods, and using products with parabens might be bad for our health over time.
- Studies suggest that parabens could be linked to health issues like allergies, weight gain, infertility, and even breast cancer.
Textile dyes are the burgeoning environmental contaminants across the world. They might be directly disposed of from textile industries into the aquatic bodies, which act as the direct source for the entire ecosystem, ultimately impacting the human beings. Hence, it is essential to dissect the potential adverse outcomes of textile dye exposure on aquatic plants, aquatic fauna, terrestrial entities, and humans.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPesticides are extensively used agrochemicals across the world to control pest populations. However, irrational application of pesticides leads to contamination of various components of the environment, like air, soil, water, and vegetation, all of which build up significant levels of pesticide residues. Further, these environmental contaminants fuel objectionable human toxicity and impose a greater risk to the ecosystem.
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