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Occupational and environmental pesticide exposure and associated health risks among pesticide applicators and non-applicator residents in rural Ethiopia

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Intensive pesticide use increased concern about the potential acute and chronic health effects of pesticides in general and among applicators in particular.
Roba Argaw Tessema, Roba Argaw Tessema, Roba Argaw Tessema, Károly Nagy, Balázs Ádám, Balázs Ádám   +5 more
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Pesticide-related illness reported to and diagnosed in primary care: implications for surveillance of environmental causes of ill-health. [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: In Great Britain (GB), data collected on pesticide associated illness focuses on acute episodes such as poisonings caused by misuse or abuse.
Vera Mann, Mann, Vera, Lesley Rushton, Rushton, Lesley, Mann Vera, Rushton Lesley   +5 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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Does Pesticide exposure contribute to the growing burden of non - communicable diseases in Tanzania

Scientific African, 2022
Pesticide exposure is becoming a public health concern in Tanzania. This review highlights the existing information on pesticide exposure, health effects, knowledge, and awareness on pesticide handling and management and in the current pesticide ...
Nicholaus Calista, Martin D. Haikael, Matemu O. Athanasia, Kassim Neema, Kimiywe Judith   +4 more
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A comparison of runoff- and spray-drift-related pesticide contamination in agricultural surface waters : exposure, effects and mitigation [PDF]

, 2004
Includes bibliographical references.Runoff and spray-drift-related pesticide input are important sources of non pointsource pesticide pollution in surface waters but few studies have directly compared these routes in a risk assessment scenario ...
Dabrowski, James Michael
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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
openaire   +4 more sources

Pesticide Exposure

, 2023
Applicator taking pesticide contaminated glove off to answer phone. Pesticide exposure from not washing hands before touching phone and outside of glove in contact with bare hand and ...

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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
doaj   +3 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source