Abstract
A variety of information pertaining to pesticide use in Cambodia were given by government officers and NGOs stuffs, and organochlorine compounds in fish collected from Phnom Penh and its suburb were analyzed in order to understand their status of pollution in the Cambodian waters. HCHs, CHLs, and DDTs were detected with low residue levels, while HCB and PCBs concentrations were less than the detection limits in most of the samples. Compared with data of fish from other areas in the world, organochlorine concentrations in Cambodian fish were apparently lower. The Cambodian daily intake of each organochlorine compound through eating fish was estimated to be much less than the threshold toxic level presented by FAQ-WHO. These results show that the extent of organochlorine contamination is still small in the Cambodian freshwater environments.
