“…In the present study, serum concentrations of organochlorine pesticides were comparable to those reported previously in some populations in Tunisia (Ben Hassine et al, 2014;Ennaceur and Driss, 2010) and other Mediterranean countries, such as Egypt (Ahmed et al, 2002), Italy (Bergonzi et al, 2009), Spain (Llop et al, 2010), or Greece (Vafeiadi et al, 2014). However, PCB concentrations were in general higher than those reported in other Tunisian populations and were comparable to those reported in more industrialized Mediterranean countries such as Italy (Bergonzi et al, 2009) and Spain (Llop et al, 2010), which may be attributable to the recent rapid technological development of Tunisia.…”