A pioneering study on cytotoxicity in Australian parakeets ( Melopsittacus undulates ) exposed to tannery effluent

Degradation and detoxification of leather tannery effluent by a newly developed bacterial consortium GS-TE1310 for environmental safety

“…This uncontrolled and illegal practice causes the accumulation of deadly harmful metal toxicants like Cr at sequentially higher trophic-levels in the food chain (bioaccumulation) through eating/grazing by humans/animals and thus, creates severe health threats [7]. The toxic hazards of TE in both the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem have been well-documented [8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. Thus, there is an urgent need to adequately treat/detoxify TE before its discharge to combat the environmental and health hazards.…”

Potential Use of Distinct Biomarkers (Trace Metals, Micronuclei and Nuclear Abnormalities) in a Heterogeneous Sample of Birds in Southern Brazil.

“…Among the most important effects are decrease of testicular mass, spermatogenesis failure, decrease in egg production and egg mass, alterations in the eggshell, increase in embryo mortality and reduction of the incubation success (Burger e Gochfeld 1995). Besides that, these chemical compounds have mutagenic and carcinogenic potential, that can lead to genotoxicity, i.e., alterations in the levels of genetic compositions, increasing predisposition to chromosome-related disorders (Alimba and Bakare 2016;de Souza et al 2017;Baesse et al 2019).…”

Detoxification Assays of Tunisian Tannery Wastewater under Nonsterile Conditions Using the Filamentous Fungus Aspergillus niger

“…On the other hand, the toxicity of tannery effluents was reported in several studies [14–16]. Most of these studies revealed that the effects of tannery wastewater are devastating not only to humans [17] but also to birds [18], fish [19], plants [20], amphibians [21], and algae and daphnia [22, 23]. Furthermore, toxicity of tannery effluents to mice was investigated [16, 24, 25].…”