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Dermal Exposure Associated with Occupational End Use of Pesticides and the Role of Protective Measures

Safety and Health at Work, 2013
Background: Occupational end users of pesticides may experience bodily absorption of the pesticide products they use, risking possible health effects.
Ewan MacFarlane, Renee Carey, Tessa Keegel, Sonia El-Zaemay, Lin Fritschi   +4 more
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Perinatal exposure to a dietary pesticide cocktail does not increase susceptibility to high-fat diet-induced metabolic perturbations at adulthood but modifies urinary and fecal metabolic fingerprints in C57Bl6/J mice

Environment International, 2020
Background: We recently demonstrated that chronic dietary exposure to a mixture of pesticides at low-doses induced sexually dimorphic obesogenic and diabetogenic effects in adult mice.
Lorraine Smith, Wendy Klément, Léonie Dopavogui, Frédéric de Bock, Frédéric Lasserre, Sharon Barretto, Céline Lukowicz, Anne Fougerat, Arnaud Polizzi, Benoist Schaal, Bruno Patris, Colette Denis, Guylène Feuillet, Cécile Canlet, Emilien L Jamin, Laurent Debrauwer, Laila Mselli-Lakhal, Nicolas Loiseau, Hervé Guillou, Nicola Marchi, Sandrine Ellero-Simatos, Laurence Gamet-Payrastre   +21 more
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Dietary Magnesium Intake Ameliorates the Association Between Household Pesticide Exposure and Type 2 Diabetes: Data From NHANES, 2007–2018

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
Aims/HypothesisThis study aimed to explore whether household pesticide exposure in the general population increased the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and whether intake of dietary magnesium could lower type 2 diabetes from household pesticide ...
Jungao Huang, Jungao Huang, Liqin Hu, Juan Yang   +3 more
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First Aid for Pesticide Exposure

EDIS, 2016
Pesticide poisoning is a commonly under-diagnosed illness. This 5-page fact sheet describes how to recognize the early symptoms of pesticide exposure and provide basic first aid for the treatment of victims.
Frederick M. Fishel
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Pesticide exposure and cognitive decline in a rural South Korean population.

PLoS ONE, 2019
We aimed to investigate the relationship between pesticide exposure and cognitive decline in a rural South Korean population. From July 2015 to December 2017, 200 randomly selected Korean Farmers Cohort study participants were recruited and of these, 169
Jae-Yeop Kim, Sung-Jin Park, Sung-Kyung Kim, Chang-Soo Kim, Tae-Hei Kim, Seong-Ho Min, Sung-Soo Oh, Sang-Baek Koh   +7 more
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Pesticide exposure and sprayer design: ergonomics evaluation to reduce pesticide exposure

WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation, 2012
Plant protection products are used in agriculture to improve yields, but this use can cause contamination of the environment and is also likely to have adverse short and long term effects on agricultural workers. This poster describes a systems approach to reducing the risk of operator exposure to plant protection products through the introduction of ...
Grimbuhler, Sonia, Lambert, M., Nelson, J., Richardson, J.   +3 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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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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A new approach methodology to identify tumorigenic chemicals using short-term exposures and transcript profiling

Frontiers in Toxicology
Current methods for cancer risk assessment are resource-intensive and not feasible for most of the thousands of untested chemicals. In earlier studies, we developed a new approach methodology (NAM) to identify liver tumorigens using gene expression ...
Victoria Ledbetter, Victoria Ledbetter, Scott Auerbach, Logan J. Everett, Beena Vallanat, Anna Lowit, Gregory Akerman, William Gwinn, Leah C. Wehmas, Michael F. Hughes, Michael Devito, J. Christopher Corton   +11 more
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Pesticide exposure and associated acute health effects among smallholder farmers in Mbale District, Eastern Uganda

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health
Introduction: Pesticide use for agriculture is on the rise in Uganda. Many farmers improperly use pesticides, which puts them at risk of exposure and adverse health effects. We assessed pesticide exposure levels and acute health effects among smallholder
Elizabeth Muhumuza, Charles Ssemugabo, Andrew Tusubira, Maggie Ssekitto Ashaba, Deborah Wanzira, David Guwattudde   +5 more
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