Exposure to Pesticides in Residents or the Banks of the Río Bogotá (Suesca) and the Capitan Fish
Objective: Considering the high use of pesticides in Colombia and the harmful effects resulting fromexposure to these substances on human health and the environment, a study for the determinationof biomarkers of exposure and effect of pesticides in ...
Rodríguez-Forero Adriana +4 more
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Due to the ban on the use of organochlorines, resulting from environmental and public health concern, there has been a significant surge on the use of pyrethroid pesticides for agricultural purposes.
Solomon Oluwaseun Akinnawo +2 more
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Eighteenth Year of the Gulf of Maine Environmental Monitoring Program [PDF]
This report summarizes the metals and organic contaminant data associated with the collection and analyses of blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) tissue from selected sites along the Gulf of Maine coast during the 2008 sampling season. Contaminant monitoring is
Aube, Jamie +14 more
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Određivanje nekih organoklorovih spojeva u crvenoj kani (Lawsonia inermis) i čaju (Thea sinensis) [PDF]
Henna (Lawsonia inermis) has been used for centuries as a herbal hair and skin dye, but very little is known about its additives and contaminants that could adversely affect human health.
Andrej Klobučar +2 more
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Detoxical aspects of nutritional therapy using natural enterosorbents on the basis of pectins
The rate of anthropogenic pollution and reduction of the environmental quality progress quicker than adaptive possibilities of an organism. This causes pre-pathological and pathological changes. So there is a necessity of preventive measures organization
Elena E. Tekutskaya
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The organochlorine pesticides in food samples
Nowadays the concept of food is changed, because food is no longer considered as a source of energy alone, but must provide a sense of pleasure and satisfaction with eating meals. But the unwillingness to develop awareness and raise the concept of food to a higher level, we have to emphasize and warn of the food safety related to chemical hazards.
Bulog, Aleksandar +3 more
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Pesticide Use in Vegetable Crops: Frequency, Intensity and Determinant Factors [PDF]
This paper has examined pest management practices in four important vegetable crops, viz. chillies, cauliflower, brinjal and bhendi using farm level cross-sectional data.
Jeyanthi, H., Kombairaju, S.
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[Delayed effects of organochlorine pesticides in man].
Available information on organochlorines and the chronic effects of exposure to them are set out. Organochlorinated compounds are the most persistent pesticides and can be found in all ecosystems. Although they are generally efficient in pest control, they are also a potent environment pollutant and can provoke health problems in man.
Nunes, Mônica Vannucci +1 more
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Organochlorine pesticides and epigenetic alterations in thyroid tumors. [PDF]
Salimi F +6 more
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Enhancing the food security of the peri-urban and urban poor through improvements to the quality, safety and economics of street-vended foods [PDF]
There has been a continuing growth in urbanisation in developing countries, and governments’ face a major challenge in ensuring that city dwellers are able to procure sufficient food. Street foods are sold in almost every country in the world.
Johnson, Paa-Nii T., Yawson, Robert M.
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