Department of Agricultural Entomology, Centre for Plant Protection studies, Tamil nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore-641 003, India
Online published on 3 November, 2011.
HCH was the predominant pollutant found to be present in nearly all of the eggs analysed and occured at levels from 0.009 - 0.505 ug/g in wild birds; 0.014 - 0.048 ug/g in quails, 0.004 - 0.233 ug/g in poultry hen; BDL-0.274 ug/g in country hen, BDL to 0.054 ug/g in ducks and 0.030 in turkey. No detectable amounts of metabolities of DDT was found in two samples of wild birds, four of quails, nine of poultry hen, 15 of country hen, two of ducks and one turkey egg. None of the samples contained residues of DDT exceeding the MRL of 1.25 ppm and DDE and DDD were the major contaminants among the metabolites.
