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Environmental pollution is a serious problem plaguing humanity, modern human society and the quality of human life all across the globe. Chemical pollution is a potent source of ecological and environmental degradation in recent times because of the extensive use of chemicals in our modern life (Gray 2006; Datta Banik et al. 2007). Environmentally toxic chemicals range from a wide diversity of different functional groups and species. They include: toxicants, irritants, mutagens, clasto-gens, carcinogens, teratogens, plastics, xenobiotics, pesticides and fertilizers, heavy metals, metalloids, pharmaceutical compounds, organic compounds, industrial effluents, untreated domestic and industrial wastes, different radioactive wastes, radionuclides, and abandoned military ammunition chemicals (Schnoor et al. 1995; Schnoor 1997; Salt et al. 1998; Thompson et al. 1998; Lucero et al. 1999; Hooker and Skeen 1999; Yoon et al. 2002).

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