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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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Wild bee toxicity data for pesticide risk assessments [PDF]

, 2019
Pollination services are vital for agriculture, food security and biodiversity. Although many insect species provide pollination services, honeybees are thought to be the major provider of this service to agriculture. However, the importance of wild bees
Lewis, Kathleen, Tzilivakis, John
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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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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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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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Suitability of pesticide risk indicators for less developed countries: a comparison [PDF]

, 2011
Pesticide risk indicators provide simple support in the assessment of environmental and health risks from pesticide use, and can therefore inform policies to foster a sustainable interaction of agriculture with the environment.
Balderacchi, Bergkvist, Binder, Binder, Blanco, C.R. Binder, Cardenas, Castoldi, Commission of the European Communities (CEC), Dosemeci, Dushoff, E. Rahn, Ecobichon, Falconer, Feola, Feola, Feola, Feola, Finizio, G. Feola, Greitens, Juraske, Juraske, Kookana, Kookana, Kovach, Levitan, Levitan, Matthews, Maud, Muhammetoglu, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Ospina, Padovani, Pimentel, Reus, Schoell, Stenrod, Trevisan, Van der Werf, Vercruysse, Zhen   +42 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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Health Symptoms Associated with Pesticides Exposure among Flower and Onion Pesticide Applicators in Arusha Region

Annals of Global Health, 2018
Introduction: Pesticides are extensively used in agriculture to control harmful pests and prevent crop yield losses or product damage. In Tanzania several studies have been conducted on health effects of pesticides on agricultural workers. However, there
Suten Geofrey Mwabulambo, Ezra Jonathan Mrema, Aiwerasia Vera Ngowi, Simon Mamuya   +3 more
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Association between pesticide exposure and sleep health among a representative sample of US adults: evidence from NHANES 2009–2014

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Data suggest that pesticides interact with the melatonin receptor, which may influence sleep. However, the link between pesticides and sleep remains unexplored among the general adult population.
Astrid N. Zamora, Deborah J. Watkins, Karen E. Peterson, Erica C. Jansen   +3 more
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Migrant Farmworkers\u27 Perceptions of Pesticide Risk Exposure in Adams County, Pennsylvania: A Cultural Risk Assessment [PDF]

, 2018
Agricultural exceptionalism, a system in which regular labor laws and standards do not apply to farm labor, makes migrant farmworkers particularly vulnerable populations—economically, socially, and in terms of environmental health.
Edelson, Micaela S. G., Monani, Salma, Platt, Rutherford V.   +2 more
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