Special Issue "Pesticides and Health"

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A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2011)

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Dr. Jane A. Hoppin
Epidemiology Branch, The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), PO Box 12233, MD A3-05, Research Triangle Park (RTP), NC 27709, USA
Website: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/atniehs/labs/epi/chronic/staff/hoppin/
E-Mail: hoppin1@niehs.nih.gov
Phone: +1 919 541 7622
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Interests: health effects of pesticides and phthalates; common environmental contaminants

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Dear Colleagues,

Pesticides represent a common environmental exposure due to their widespread use for agricultural, residential, and public health purposes. Exposure is common in both developed and developing countries, though the exposure patterns may differ due to pesticide use patterns and practices. Pesticides are screened for acute toxicity, mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, and reproductive toxicity prior to registration, but information on the human health effects of pesticides is limited. Recent studies in adults have suggested that pesticides may be related to common chronic diseases such as diabetes and asthma, in addition to cancer and neurological diseases. Studies in children have suggested that pesticides may adversely impact neurodevelopment and other early childhood outcomes. Characterization of pesticide use and exposure in the general population is difficult, yet it is critical to good epidemiologic evaluation of the potential human health effects of pesticides.

Given the ubiquity of pesticide exposure and the animal and human evidence implicating pesticides as potential contributors to human disease, better understanding of how people get exposed to pesticides and how that exposure can be evaluated is critical to understanding the potential human health risks. For this special issue on Pesticides and Health, I’m eager to entertain papers that enhance our understanding of pesticide exposure in populations and incorporate those measures into epidemiologic studies. Papers that fall along the continuum of pesticide exposure characterization to human health evaluation will be considered.

Dr. Jane Hoppin
Guest Editor

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Keywords

pesticides
exposure assessment
agricultural exposures
residential exposures
chronic diseases
neurodevelpment

Published Papers (12 papers)

Asa Bradman, Rosemary Castorina, Dana Boyd Barr, Jonathan Chevrier, Martha E. Harnly, Ellen A. Eisen, Thomas E. McKone, Kim Harley, Nina Holland and Brenda Eskenazi

Article: Determinants of Organophosphorus Pesticide Urinary Metabolite Levels in Young Children Living in an Agricultural Community

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8(4), 1061-1083; doi:10.3390/ijerph8041061

Received: 10 February 2011; in revised form: 11 March 2011 / Accepted: 29 March 2011 / Published: 8 April 2011

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Communication: AGRICOH: A Consortium of Agricultural Cohorts

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8(5), 1341-1357; doi:10.3390/ijerph8051341

Received: 1 March 2011; in revised form: 22 April 2011 / Accepted: 25 April 2011 / Published: 29 April 2011

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Christos A. Damalas and Ilias G. Eleftherohorinos

Review: Pesticide Exposure, Safety Issues, and Risk Assessment Indicators

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8(5), 1402-1419; doi:10.3390/ijerph8051402

Received: 12 January 2011; in revised form: 18 April 2011 / Accepted: 28 April 2011 / Published: 6 May 2011

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Abstract: Pesticides are widely used in agricultural production to prevent or control pests, diseases, weeds, and other plant pathogens in an effort to reduce or eliminate yield losses and maintain high product quality. Although pesticides are developed through very strict regulation processes to function with reasonable certainty and minimal impact on human health and the environment, serious concerns have been raised about health risks resulting from occupational exposure and from residues in food and drinking water. Occupational exposure to pesticides often occurs in the case of agricultural workers in open fields and greenhouses, workers in the pesticide industry, and exterminators of house pests. Exposure of the general population to pesticides occurs primarily through eating food and drinking water contaminated with pesticide residues, whereas substantial exposure can also occur in or around the home. Regarding the adverse effects on the environment (water, soil and air contamination from leaching, runoff, and spray drift, as well as the detrimental effects on wildlife, fish, plants, and other non-target organisms), many of these effects depend on the toxicity of the pesticide, the measures taken during its application, the dosage applied, the adsorption on soil colloids, the weather conditions prevailing after application, and how long the pesticide persists in the environment. Therefore, the risk assessment of the impact of pesticides either on human health or on the environment is not an easy and particularly accurate process because of differences in the periods and levels of exposure, the types of pesticides used (regarding toxicity and persistence), and the environmental characteristics of the areas where pesticides are usually applied. Also, the number of the criteria used and the method of their implementation to assess the adverse effects of pesticides on human health could affect risk assessment and would possibly affect the characterization of the already approved pesticides and the approval of the new compounds in the near future. Thus, new tools or techniques with greater reliability than those already existing are needed to predict the potential hazards of pesticides and thus contribute to reduction of the adverse effects on human health and the environment. On the other hand, the implementation of alternative cropping systems that are less dependent on pesticides, the development of new pesticides with novel modes of action and improved safety profiles, and the improvement of the already used pesticide formulations towards safer formulations (e.g., microcapsule suspensions) could reduce the adverse effects of farming and particularly the toxic effects of pesticides. In addition, the use of appropriate and well-maintained spraying equipment along with taking all precautions that are required in all stages of pesticide handling could minimize human exposure to pesticides and their potential adverse effects on the environment.

Peter P. Egeghy, Elaine A. Cohen Hubal, Nicolle S. Tulve, Lisa J. Melnyk, Marsha K. Morgan, Roy C. Fortmann and Linda S. Sheldon

Review: Review of Pesticide Urinary Biomarker Measurements from Selected US EPA Children’s Observational Exposure Studies

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8(5), 1727-1754; doi:10.3390/ijerph8051727

Received: 2 March 2011; in revised form: 12 May 2011 / Accepted: 17 May 2011 / Published: 24 May 2011

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Liza Oates and Marc Cohen

Review: Assessing Diet as a Modifiable Risk Factor for Pesticide Exposure

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8(6), 1792-1804; doi:10.3390/ijerph8061792

Received: 18 April 2011; in revised form: 13 May 2011 / Accepted: 17 May 2011 / Published: 25 May 2011

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Catherine E. LePrevost, Margaret R. Blanchard and W. Gregory Cope

Article: The Pesticide Risk Beliefs Inventory: A Quantitative Instrument for the Assessment of Beliefs about Pesticide Risks

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8(6), 1923-1935; doi:10.3390/ijerph8061923

Received: 2 March 2011; in revised form: 24 May 2011 / Accepted: 25 May 2011 / Published: 1 June 2011

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Wissem Mnif, Aziza Ibn Hadj Hassine, Aicha Bouaziz, Aghleb Bartegi, Olivier Thomas and Benoit Roig

Review: Effect of Endocrine Disruptor Pesticides: A Review

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8(6), 2265-2303; doi:10.3390/ijerph8062265

Received: 20 May 2011; in revised form: 8 June 2011 / Accepted: 9 June 2011 / Published: 17 June 2011

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Karin Hohenadel, Shelley A. Harris, John R. McLaughlin, John J. Spinelli, Punam Pahwa, James A. Dosman, Paul A. Demers and Aaron Blair

Article: Exposure to Multiple Pesticides and Risk of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in Men from Six Canadian Provinces

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8(6), 2320-2330; doi:10.3390/ijerph8062320

Received: 20 May 2011; in revised form: 9 June 2011 / Accepted: 9 June 2011 / Published: 21 June 2011

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Dana Boyd Barr, Lee-Yang Wong, Roberto Bravo, Gayanga Weerasekera, Martins Odetokun, Paula Restrepo, Do-Gyun Kim, Carolina Fernandez, Ralph D. Whitehead Jr., Jose Perez, Maribel Gallegos, Bryan L. Williams and Larry L. Needham

Article: Urinary Concentrations of Dialkylphosphate Metabolites of Organophosphorus Pesticides: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2004

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8(8), 3063-3098; doi:10.3390/ijerph8083063

Received: 25 May 2011; in revised form: 29 June 2011 / Accepted: 8 July 2011 / Published: 25 July 2011

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Mary N. Armes, Zeyan Liew, Anthony Wang, Xiangmei Wu, Deborah H. Bennett, Irva Hertz-Picciotto and Beate Ritz

Article: Residential Pesticide Usage in Older Adults Residing in Central California

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8(8), 3114-3133; doi:10.3390/ijerph8083114

Received: 1 March 2011; in revised form: 6 July 2011 / Accepted: 20 July 2011 / Published: 25 July 2011

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Lucía Pareja, Marcos Colazzo, Andrés Pérez-Parada, Silvina Niell, Leonidas Carrasco-Letelier, Natalia Besil, María Verónica Cesio and Horacio Heinzen

Article: Detection of Pesticides in Active and Depopulated Beehives in Uruguay

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8(10), 3844-3858; doi:10.3390/ijerph8103844

Received: 4 September 2011 / Accepted: 7 September 2011 / Published: 28 September 2011

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Joseph Coble, Kent W. Thomas, Cynthia J. Hines, Jane A. Hoppin, Mustafa Dosemeci, Brian Curwin, Jay H. Lubin, Laura E. Beane Freeman, Aaron Blair, Dale P. Sandler and Michael C. R. Alavanja

Article: An Updated Algorithm for Estimation of Pesticide Exposure Intensity in the Agricultural Health Study

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8(12), 4608-4622; doi:10.3390/ijerph8124608

Received: 11 November 2011; in revised form: 2 December 2011 / Accepted: 5 December 2011 / Published: 12 December 2011

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