{"id":29703,"date":"2025-01-29T04:55:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29703"},"modified":"2025-04-09T10:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T04:42:12","slug":"organophosphate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/organophosphate\/","title":{"rendered":"Organophosphate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Organophosphate Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, doctors treating patients from J&amp;K\u2019s Baddal village said that organophosphate could be behind the 17 deaths that had spread panic in the village.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Organophosphate<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a chemical that is used in <strong>pesticides and insecticides.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Organophosphates are efficiently absorbed by inhalation and ingestion.<\/li>\n<li>These are <strong>chemical compounds<\/strong> formed <strong>through the esterification process<\/strong> involving phosphoric acid and alcohol.<\/li>\n<li>These are generally used to <strong>protect crops from pests<\/strong> and even to control the spread of disease by insects and have extensive application in manufacturing plastics and solvents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Impact of Organophosphate on Human Health<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>They work by disrupting the transmission of nerve signals in exposed organisms with fatal. Certain organophosphates have caused a different kind of<strong> neurotoxicity<\/strong> consisting of damage to the afferent fibers of peripheral and central nerves and associated with inhibition of \u201cneuropathy target esterase\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is Esterification?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a chemical reaction in which two reactants such as <strong>alcohol and acid combine<\/strong> to create an ester as the reaction product.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Organophosphate FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> What is organophosphate used for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Primary components in herbicides, pesticides, and insecticides\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong> What are examples of organophosphate drugs?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Malathion, Sarin and VX\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong> What is the antidote for organophosphate?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Atropine and pralidoxime<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>4: What is the advantage of using organophosphate insecticides?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> It is safe for use on crops and animals due to their relatively fast degradation rates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/jammu-kashmir-mystery-deaths-baddal-pesticides-likely-cause-9802448\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organophosphates are chemical compounds formed through the esterification process involving phosphoric acid and alcohol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}