Indirect Effects of Pesticide Regulation and the Food Quality Protection Act [PDF]
A driving factor behind pesticide regulation in Canada and the United States is the desire to protect consumers from harmful residues on food. The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) was unanimously passed by the U.S.
Cash, Sean B. +3 more
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Miotoxicidade por organofosforados
Revista de Saúde PúblicaOs organofosforados são um grupo de compostos químicos amplamente utilizados em agropecuária como inseticidas, ocasionando intoxicações acidentais em animais e humanos, e mesmo sendo utilizados em tentativas de suicídio.
Maria J. Cavaliere +3 more
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, 2015 International audiencePyrethroid insecticides are widely used in agriculture and in homes. Despite the neurotoxicity of these insecticides at high doses, few studies have examined whether lower-level exposures could adversely affect children's ...
Chevrier, Cécile +9 more
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Molecular basis of resistance to organophosphate insecticides in the New World screw-worm fly. [PDF]
Parasit Vectors, 2020 Tandonnet S +6 more
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CONSUMERS' VALUATION OF INSECTICIDE USE RESTRICTIONS: AN APPLICATION TO APPLES [PDF]
Economic assessments of pesticide regulations typically focus on producer impacts and generally ignore possible changes in product demand. These changes may be nonnegligible if real and/or perceived product attributes change.
Fox, John A. +3 more
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Evaluation of tools to manage whiteflies in European tomato crops The tomato case study [PDF]
, 2008 Whiteflies and whitefly-transmitted viruses present some of the most intractable constraints to European tomato production. The main objectives of the Tomato Case Study (TCS) were to: identify where and why whiteflies were a major limitation, collect ...
Albajes, Ramon +8 more
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Late-onset distal polyneuropathy due to acute organophosphate intoxication case report
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2003 Intoxications due to organophosphate insecticides are common in our country, since agriculture has an important place. Besides the well known acute cholinergic toxicity, these compounds may cause late-onset distal polyneuropathy occurring two to ...
Ferah Genel +4 more
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Pesticide poisoning of farm workers : implications of blood test results from Vietnam [PDF]
In this paper, the authors have assessed the incidence and determinants of pesticide poisoning among rice farmers in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Blood cholinesterase tests suggest that the incidence of poisoning from exposure to organophosphates and ...
Dasgupta, Susmita +4 more
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Respiratory failure in organophosphate insecticide poisoning.
Saudi medical journal, 2007 Organophosphate compounds (OP) are usual insecticides and may poison human beings in a suicide attempt or accidental exposure. They inhibit activity of cholinesterase. Poisoning may be enough sever for intensive care support. In this paper, we study the prevalence and management of sever cases as well.We studied patients with OP poisoning, from ...
Hamid, Noshad +5 more
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Letter to the Editors-in-Chief regarding Velmurugan et al.,-Association of co-accumulation of arsenic and organophosphate insecticides with diabetes and atherosclerosis in a rural agricultural community: KMCH-NNCD-I study. [PDF]
Acta Diabetol, 2020 Barr DB, Jaacks LM.
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