This study aims to assess health effects caused by organophosphate pesticides exposure among farmers (n=35) and non-farmers (n=35) in Sisa Krabue sub-district, Ongkharak district, Nakhon Nayok province. The research design of this study was a cross-sectional study during pesticide application period from January to March 2013. Questionnaire and Test-mate ChE (Model 400) for blood cholinesterase...

OBJECTIVES Fertility problems are an increasing public health issue in industrialised countries. Exposure to exogenous agents with endocrine disrupting properties, such as some pesticides, are potential risk factors for subfertility. The aim of this study was to determine whether time-to-pregnancy (TTP) is prolonged in male greenhouse workers exposed to pesticides in comparison with a non-expos...

Use of synthetic pesticides causes some unfortunate consequences such as environmental pollution, pests/ vector resistance and toxicity to other non-target organisms including human beings, biological pesticides from plant, microbial origin are environmentally safe pesticides. Microbial insecticides are especially valuable because their non-toxicity to non-target animals and human beings. Labor...

EU Directive 94/414 requires that plant protection products have no unacceptable effects on the environment particularly non-target species. DEFRA Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD) is responsible for assessing the environmental safety of pesticides in the UK. Solid formulations (seeds, pellets, baits and granules) present particular problems due to the high toxicity of some formulations and t...

The potential exists for exposure to pesticides from a number of sources, including the diet. Approval of the use of pesticides is regulated under the Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, administered primarily by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA). In 1988, Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences to evaluate the U.S. EPA's existing risk assessment practic...

Recent epidemiological studies have suggested an increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) from carbamate insecticide use among farmers. To further explore the possible relationships, we conducted a pooled analysis of three population-based case-control studies conducted in four midwestern states in the United States. A total of 985 white male subjects and 2895 control subjects were included...