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Lifetime Pesticide Use and Antinuclear Antibodies in Male Farmers From the Agricultural Health Study

Frontiers in Immunology, 2019
Farming and pesticide use have been associated with systemic autoimmune diseases, and while certain organochlorine insecticides and other pesticides are suspected to influence risk, the role of specific pesticides in the development of systemic ...
Christine G. Parks, Aline de Souza Espindola Santos, Catherine C. Lerro, Curt T. DellaValle, Mary H. Ward, Michael C. Alavanja, Sonja I. Berndt, Laura E. Beane Freeman, Dale P. Sandler, Jonathan N. Hofmann   +9 more
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Gracilaria gracilis as a bioindicator of environmental pollution: Insights into organochlorine pesticide contamination in Marchica Lagoon [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
Morocco's Mediterranean shoreline, specifically the Marchica Lagoon, is becoming ever more susceptible to agricultural pressure and pesticide-laden pollution in their aquatic ecosystems.
El Mekki Ouiam, Layachi Mostafa, Baghour Mourad, Benyaich Abdelhay, Zidane Hakima, Akodad Mustapha, Rezzoum Noreddine, Elouamari Najib, Kaddouri Nassir, Rahhou Abderrahmane, Oujidi Bouchra, Skalli Ali   +11 more
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Complex organochlorine pesticide mixtures as determinant factor for breast cancer risk: a population-based case–control study in the Canary Islands (Spain)

Environmental Health, 2012
Background All the relevant risk factors contributing to breast cancer etiology are not fully known. Exposure to organochlorine pesticides has been linked to an increased incidence of the disease, although not all data have been consistent.
Boada Luis D, Zumbado Manuel, Henríquez-Hernández Luis, Almeida-González Maira, Álvarez-León Eva E, Serra-Majem Lluis, Luzardo Octavio P   +6 more
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Potential lethality of organochlorine pesticides: Inducing fatality through inflammatory responses in the organism

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
Background: Organochlorine pesticides, with their environmental persistence and bioaccumulation potential, have gained significant attention. This study explores the impact of organochlorine pesticides on mortality and chronic diseases, investigates ...
Jiaxing Tan, Mengkai Ma, Xinyue Shen, Yuanlin Xia, Wei Qin   +4 more
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Pesticides Contamination of Cereals and Legumes: Monitoring of Samples Marketed in Italy as a Contribution to Risk Assessment

Applied Sciences, 2021
The evaluation of cereal-based product contamination by pesticide residues is a topic of worldwide importance, and reliable analytical methods for official check analyses and monitoring studies are required for multi-residue analysis at trace levels.
Valeria Nardelli, Valeria D’Amico, Mariateresa Ingegno, Ines Della Rovere, Marco Iammarino, Francesco Casamassima, Anna Calitri, Donatella Nardiello, Donghao Li, Maurizio Quinto   +9 more
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Measuring exposure to organochlorinated pesticides [PDF]

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 1998
Environmental epidemiological investigations in cancer remain, with rare exceptions, inconclusive. The difficulties of establishing patterns of measurements of exposure in the human body is one of the limitations of these studies. The findings of six recent epidemiological studies that analyzed the association between organochlorinated compounds and ...
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Evaluation of Occurrence and Health Risk of Organochlorine Pesticides in Sediments of the Department of Bolivar, Colombia

Chemical Engineering Transactions
Organochlorine pesticides such as Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) were widely used in agriculture and vector disease control worldwide. Despite its ban in production and application since the 1970s in many countries,
Belkis Palacio-Villalba, Elin Manrique-Julio, Leonor Cervantes-Caballeros, Barbara Arroyo-Salgado, Maria C. Garcia-Espineira, Lesly P. Tejeda-Benitez   +5 more
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Pesticides district irrigation canals of La Doctrina (Córdoba-Colombia)

Temas Agrarios, 2018
La Doctrina district makes a great contribution to Colombian economy with production of several crops such as rice (1230 ha), corn (50 ha), African palm (300 ha), papaya (10 ha), vegetables (8 ha), and pastures (400 ha).
Gregorio De Jesús Arteaga palomo, Jose Luís Marrugo Negrete, Juan Gabriel Sanchez Castellón   +2 more
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Assessment of developed paper strip based sensor with pesticide residues in different dairy environmental samples

Current Research in Food Science, 2023
According to the results of this study, the paper strip biosensor can detect pesticide at very low concentration like fungicide, organochlorine, organophosphate, carbamate, and herbicide group ranges from 1 to 10, 1–50, 250–500, 1–50, and 1 μg/L ...
Soniya A. Ranveer, C.G. Harshitha, Vaishali Dasriya, Nimisha Tehri, Naresh Kumar, H.V. Raghu   +5 more
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Food Contamination and Safety in Nigeria: A Systematic Synthesis of Heavy Metals, Microbial Pathogens, and Health Risk Metrics

Food Safety and Health, EarlyView.
This is an infographic driver of food contaminants and health effects. ABSTRACT Food safety remains a critical challenge in Nigeria due to rapid urbanization and weak regulatory enforcement. This systematic review synthesizes empirical evidence from 2015 to 2025 to characterize food contaminant profiles and associated human health risks in Nigeria ...
Cecilia Nwadiuto Obasi, Naomi A. Mogborukor, Baridoo Donatus Dooka, Polycarp Dauda Madaki, Chiara Frazzoli, Mohamed Haddad, Orish Ebere Orisakwe   +6 more
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