toxicological studies on one of environmental pollutant

The obviously increased agricultural use of pesticides are usually come in contact with serious problems of pollution and health hazards. The most famous potential hazardous effects of such pollutants; are fetotoxicity and teratogenicity, male reproductivThe present study was carried out to elucidate the effects of profenofos on female and male reproduction, its genotoxic effect on testicles of treated rats, determination the profenofos residues in rat tissues, studying its effect on nucleic acid and variTeratogenic effect of profenofos:For assessment of female reproductive toxicity due to the tested insecticide, fifty mature pregnant female albino rats, with twenty five mature male albino rats (used in mating) were used where, after fixing the zero – day of pregnancy, the pregnant femal.