Suspect screening and targeted analyses: Two complementary approaches to characterize human exposure to pesticides

Two complementary approaches to event - based control

Event-based control aims at reducing the communication effort within a control loop by closing the feedback loop only if an event indicates e.g. a substantial control error. This paper proposes two new methods for event-based control that conjointly guarantee ultimate boundedness of the event-based control loop. The global approach faces the problem of driving a system from its initial state in...

Biological Markers of Human Exposure to Pesticides

Biomarkers of human exposure to pesticides.

For centuries, several hundred pesticides have been used to control insects. These pesticides differ greatly in their mode of action, uptake by the body, metabolism, elimination from the body, and toxicity to humans. Potential exposure from the environment can be estimated by environmental monitoring. Actual exposure (uptake) is measured by the biological monitoring of human tissues and body fl...

Exposure Assessment to Environmental Pollutants in Human Health Risk Assessment Studies; Overview on New Approaches

Background & objectives: Because of human exposure to various environmental risk factors during the lifetime, the actual exposure estimation has been considered as one of the most important challenges for researchers and decision makers. Considering the contribution of environmental risk factors in the burden of diseases, this study aimed to provide new approaches in exposure assessment filed b...

Non-Targeted Analyses for Pesticides Using Deconvolution, Accurate Masses, and Databases – Screening and Confirmation

Technical innovations in crop protection have been a key component in the globalization of food production and distribution over the past several decades. The ease of access to foodstuffs from distant growing regions has depended, to a large extent, on the new pesticides that combat the historic foes of food sufficiency: fungi, insects, and weeds. Yet the same public that has come to expect and...