Endocrine disruption carbamates

It should be realized that with the exception of a few groups of chemicals (such as some organophosphorous and carbamate pesticides as well as some polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), precise mechanistic information on their toxic effects are scarce. In realizing that the exact molecular mechanism is not known for most chemicals the term mode of action is used to describe toxicides that appear to be similar albeit the mechanism is not known in detail, see also Section 4.2.6. For several groups of endocrine disrupters this terminology seems appropriate. 

Kitamura, S., Sugihara, K., Fugimoto, N. (2006). Endocrine disruption by organophosphate and carbamate pesticides. In Toxicology of Organophosphate and Carbamate Compounds (R.C. Gupta, ed.), pp. 481-94. Elsevier Academic Press, New York. 

In compliance with national and international directives, regular environmental monitoring is demanded, which requires appropriate analytical methods for fast and sensitive detection of relevant compounds such as pesticides (organophosphorus, carbamates, organochlorine, etc.), phenols, BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and total xylenes and o-, m- and p-xylene) and priority pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and other endocrine disrupting compounds. 

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