Measuring exposure to organochlorinated pesticides

Persistent organochlorinated pesticides and mechanisms of their toxicity.

Persistent organic pollutants comprised of organic chemicals like polychlorinated biphenyls, dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans and organochlorinated pesticides which have many characteristics in common. Once released in the environment they resist physical, biological, chemical and photochemical breakdown processes and thus persist in the environment. They are subject to long transboundary air p...

Biological Markers of Human Exposure to Pesticides

Professional exposure to pesticides and Parkinson disease.

OBJECTIVE We studied the relation between Parkinson disease (PD) and professional exposure to pesticides in a community-based case-control study conducted in a population characterized by a high prevalence of exposure. Our objective was to investigate the role of specific pesticide families and to perform dose-effect analyses. METHODS PD cases (n = 224) from the Mutualité Sociale Agricole (Fr...

Exposure to Pesticides and Breast Cancer Revisited

Parkinsonism and occupational exposure to pesticides.

OBJECTIVE To examine the risk of parkinsonism related to lifetime occupational exposure to pesticides among a cohort of men, mostly orchardists, in Washington State. METHODS All 310 subjects in this study had previously participated in a cohort study of men occupationally exposed to pesticides. Subjects were given a structured neurological examination and completed a self administered questio...