Organotin compounds are environmental pollutants and particularly harmful and toxic to the aquatic organisms at low concentration. Seafood is a primary source of human exposure to organotin compounds, and the most common.harmful effects include immunological impairments. Amongst these compounds, tributyltin (TBT) and triphenyltin (TPhT) are the most widely used in the textile and apparel industries, while DBT is still used as stabilizer in many PVC materials and plastisol prints.