Environmental Contamination of Pesticides and its Toxic Effects as Endocrine Disruptors

Abstract

The intensive use of pesticides in agriculture inevitably leads to the fact that the residues of these agrochemicals can be detected in water, air and soil. In general, these residues degrade slowly, which is why they are widely distributed in the environment, and even present at low levels, they can cause damage to human health as well as wildlife, due to their toxic, carcinogenic, mutagenic nature and teratogenic