Pesticides are widely used in Thailand, and can lead to serious acute and chronic health effects. To understand the determinants of pesticide exposure, such as farmers’ behaviors, is important in the effort to reduce exposure effectively. In this study, a standardized questionnaire was designed and used in order to collect information on use and safety behavior related to pesticide in chilli-gr...

BACKGROUND We evaluated the relationship between diagnosed depression and pesticide exposure using information from private pesticide applicators enrolled in the Agricultural Health Study between 1993 and 1997 in Iowa and North Carolina. METHODS There were 534 cases who self-reported a physician-diagnosed depression and 17,051 controls who reported never having been diagnosed with depression ...

2. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS............................................................................................... 3 2.1. FAO Manual on the submission and evaluation of pesticide residues data for the estimation of maximum residue levels in food and feed ....................................... 3 2.2 Submission of information for consideration by the FAO Panel ................................

Children up to 6 years of age who lived with pesticide applicators were monitored for increased risk of pesticide exposure: 48 pesticide applicator and 14 reference families were recruited from an agricultural region of Washington State in June 1995. A total of 160 spot urine samples were collected from 88 children, including repeated measures 3-7 days apart. Samples were assayed by gas chromat...

BACKGROUND There is currently a lack of reliable information on the exposures of residents and bystanders to pesticides in the UK. Previous research has shown that the methods currently used for assessing pesticide exposure for regulatory purposes are appropriate for farm workers 1. However, there were indications that the exposures of bystanders may sometimes be underestimated. The previous st...

National survey data collected for 1997 in USDA’s Agricultural Resource Management Study was used to derive implications and pose hypotheses about the impact on pesticide use, production practices, and producer costs of using genetically modified (GM) seed in soybean and cotton production. Results of the analysis suggest concurrence with scientific and industry claims about the environmental qu...

BACKGROUND Recent advances in GIS technology and remote sensing have provided new opportunities to collect ecologic data on agricultural pesticide exposure. Many pesticide studies have used historical or records-based data on crops and their associated pesticide applications to estimate exposure by measuring residential proximity to agricultural fields. Very few of these studies collected envir...

A growing body of scientific evidence suggests there may be an association between parents' exposure to pesticides and cancer in their children. In this issue, Kori Flower of the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill School of Public Health and colleagues report the results of their recent study investigating the possibility of increased cancer risk among the children of pesticide applicator...

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the genetic similarity and structure of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith), populations associated with maize and cotton crops in Brazil using amplified fragment length polymorphisms. Mean genetic similarity among populations was 0.45. The unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean analysis dendrograms did not separate popul...