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Residue analyses and exposure assessment of the Irish population to nitrofuran metabolites from different food commodities in 2009–2010 [PDF]

, 2013
peer-reviewedAn exposure assessment to nitrofuran residues was performed for three human populations (adults, teenagers and children), based on residue analyses of foods of animal origin (liver, honey, eggs and aquaculture) covering the 2-year period ...
Conroy, Emma-Rose, Danaher, Martin, Gibney, Mike, O'Mahony, John, Radovnikovic, Anita   +4 more
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Evaluation of health impacts of the improved housing conditions on under-five children in the socioeconomically underprivileged families in central India: A 1-year follow-up study protocol

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Unacceptable housing conditions prevalent in Indian urban slums adversely affect the health of residents. The Government of India initiated the Basic Services to the Urban Poor (BSUP) as a sub-mission under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal ...
Yogesh Damodar Sabde, Tanwi Trushna, Uday Kumar Mandal, Vikas Yadav, Devojit Kumar Sarma, Satish Bhagwatrao Aher, Surya Singh, Rajnarayan R. Tiwari, Vishal Diwan   +8 more
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Are cell phones an indicator of personal exposure to organophosphate flame retardants and plasticizers?

Environment International, 2019
Background: Exposure to organophosphate ester (OPE) flame retardants and plasticizers is widespread and is of concern due to their toxicity. Objectives: To investigate relationships between and within OPE concentrations in air, dust, hands, electronic ...
Congqiao Yang, Shelley A. Harris, Liisa M. Jantunen, Shabana Siddique, Cariton Kubwabo, Dina Tsirlin, Lidija Latifovic, Bruce Fraser, Melissa St-Jean, Regina De La Campa, Hongyu You, Ryan Kulka, Miriam L. Diamond   +12 more
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The Residential Population Generator (RPGen): Parameterization of Residential, Demographic, and Physiological Data to Model Intraindividual Exposure, Dose, and Risk

Toxics, 2021
Exposure to chemicals is influenced by associations between the individual’s location and activities as well as demographic and physiological characteristics.
Alexander East, Daniel Dawson, Graham Glen, Kristin Isaacs, Kathie Dionisio, Paul S. Price, Elaine A. Cohen Hubal, Daniel A. Vallero   +7 more
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Estimating the environmental burden of disease in children and adolescents in Germany: limitations and possible solutions

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionChildren and adolescents play an exceptional role in our society especially when it comes to safeguarding their health and given their higher susceptibility to environmental risk factors and ongoing physical development.MethodWe used data ...
Myriam Tobollik, Sarah Kienzler, Dirk Wintermeyer, Dietrich Plass   +3 more
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Risk Categorization of Foods of Non-Animal Origin Subject to United Kingdom Import Controls

Journal of Food Protection
Significant volumes of foods are traded between countries, and this trade brings with it opportunities for foodborne hazards to cross borders and pose a public health risk.
Amy Neill, J.Andrew Hudson, Andy Axon
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Dynamic assessment of exposure to air pollution using mobile phone data [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Exposure to air pollution can have major health impacts, such as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Traditionally, only the air pollution concentration at the home location is taken into account in health impact assessments and ...
Beckx, Carolien, Dewulf, Bart, Lefebvre, Wouter, Neutens, Tijs, Seynaeve, Gerdy, Van de Weghe, Nico, Vanpoucke, Charlotte   +6 more
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Preference and possible consumption of provided enrichment and bedding materials and disinfectant powder by growing pigs

Porcine Health Management, 2022
Background Domestic pigs have an evolutionary conserved exploratory behaviour. To comply with this requirement, the European Union aims at setting standards for appropriate enrichment materials for pigs (Council Directive 2008/120/EC).
Felicitas Koch, Janine Kowalczyk, Hans Mielke, Hans Schenkel, Martin Bachmann, Annette Zeyner, Peter Leinweber, Robert Pieper   +7 more
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Feasibility assessment of crowdsourcing slogans for promoting household waste segregation in India: a cross-sectional study

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionCrowdsourcing is an emerging technique to engage or access a wider set of experts and multiple stakeholders through online platforms, which might effectively be employed in waste management.
Kavya Krishnan, Krushna Chandra Sahoo, Madhanraj Kalyanasundaram, Surya Singh, Asha Srinivas, Ashish Pathak, Ashish Pathak, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg, Salla Atkins, Salla Atkins, Kamran Rousta, Vishal Diwan, Vishal Diwan   +12 more
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Biomonitoring-Based Risk Assessment of Pyrethroid Exposure in the U.S. Population: Application of High-Throughput and Physiologically Based Kinetic Models

Toxics
Pyrethroid insecticides have been extensively utilized in agriculture and residential areas in the United States. This study evaluated the exposure risk by age using available biomonitoring data.
Nan-Hung Hsieh, Eric S. C. Kwok
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