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Pesticide Flow Analysis to Assess Human Exposure in Greenhouse Flower Production in Colombia [PDF]

, 2013
Human exposure assessment tools represent a means for understanding human exposure to pesticides in agricultural activities and managing possible health risks.
Camilo Lesmes-fabian, Binder, Claudia R., Claudia Binder, Lesmes-Fabian, Camilo, Claudia R. Binder   +4 more
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Circularity, Sustainability, and the Quality of Coffee Sold via Vending Machines: What Do Italian Consumers Prefer?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vending is an important sector in the daily lives of many people, and coffee is the most frequently consumed product in the European market. Like many other sectors, vending is responding to the challenge of sustainable development by taking various actions, such as offering increasingly ecologically sound coffee while maintaining/improving ...
Alberto Bertossi, Stefania Troiano, Francesco Marangon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temporal Trends, Multiple Residue Incidence, and Chronic Health Risk of Pesticides in Egyptian Onions: A Four-Year Market Surveillance

Journal of Xenobiotics
This study analyzed 5731 Egyptian onion samples collected from 2021 to 2024 to detect 430 pesticide residues and evaluate occurrence patterns, EU Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) compliance, multiple residue prevalence, and consumer health implications. The
Farag Malhat, Shokr Shokr, Sara Heikal, Nour El-Hoda Zidan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Irish results from the monitoring of pesticide residues in food

, 2018
<p>This dataset contains the analytical results of pesticide residues measured in the food products analysed by the national competent authorities.
Pesticide Control Service, Chief Sanitary Inspectorate, Chief Sanitary Inspectorate (8211912), Pesticide Control Service (5572904)   +3 more
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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pesticide residues in food : 1995, report of the Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food and the Environment and the WHO Expert Group on Pesticide Residues, Geneva, 16-27 September 1995

, 1996
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World Health Organization, FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food and the Environment, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (1995: Geneva, Switzerland), WHO Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues   +4 more
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Farmers' knowledge, practices and injuries associated with pesticide exposure in rural farming villages in Tanzania

, 2015
Background: Pesticides in Tanzania are extensively used for pest control in agriculture. Their usage and unsafe handling practices may potentially result in high farmer exposures and adverse health effects.
Ngowi, Aiwerasia V, London, Leslie, Lekei, Elikana E   +2 more
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploiting pH-Regulated Dimer-Tetramer Transformation of Concanavalin A to Develop Colorimetric Biosensing of Bacteria

Scientific Reports, 2017
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) aggregation-based colorimetric biosensing remains a challenge for bacteria due to their large size. Here we propose a novel colorimetric biosensor for rapid detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 (E.
Xiahong Xu, Yuwei Yuan, Guixian Hu, Xiangyun Wang, Peipei Qi, Zhiwei Wang, Qiang Wang, Xinquan Wang, Yingchun Fu, Yanbin Li, Hua Yang   +10 more
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Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar, Sanzidur Rahman, Giacomo Zanello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source