Have Regulatory Efforts to Reduce Organophosphorus Insecticide Exposures Been Effective?
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Have Regulatory Efforts to Reduce Organophosphorus Insecticide Exposures Been Effective?
BACKGROUND The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) was signed into law in 1996 to strengthen the regulation of pesticide tolerances in food. Organophosphorus (OP) insecticides were the first group of pesticides reviewed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the new law. OBJECTIVE Our goal was to determine whether urinary concentrations of dialkylphosphate (DAP) metabolites of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104323