Assessment of exposure to pesticide mixtures in five European countries by a harmonized urinary suspect screening approach
Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2022 Dec 21;248:114105. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2022.114105. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTHumans are exposed to a mixture of pesticides through diet as well as through the environment. We conducted a suspect-screening based study to describe the probability of (concomitant) exposure to a set of pesticide profiles in five European countries (Latvia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Spain and the Netherlands). We explored whether living in an agricultural area (compared to living in a peri-urban area), being a a child (compared to being an adult), and the season in which the urine sample was collected had an impact on the probability of detection of pesticides (-metabolites). In total 2088 urine samples were collected from 1050 participants (525 parent-child pairs) and analyzed through harmonized suspect screening by five different laboratories. Fourty pesticide biomarkers (either pesticide metabolites or the parent pesticides as such) relating to 29 pesticides were identified at high levels of confidence in samples across all study sites. Most frequently detected were biomarkers related to the parent pesticides acetamiprid and chlorpropham. Other biomarkers with high detection rates in at least four countries related to the parent pesticides boscalid, fludioxonil, pirimiphos-methyl, pyrimethanil, clothianidin, fluazifop and propamocarb. In 84% of the samples at least two different pesticides were detected. The median number of detected pesticides in the urine s...
Source: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental health - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Ilse Ottenbros Erik Lebret Carolin Huber Arjen Lommen Jean-Philippe Antignac Pavel Čupr Libor Šulc Ond řej Mikeš Tam ás Szigeti Szilvia K özépesy Inese Martinsone Zanna Martinsone Lasma Akulova Olga Pardo Sandra F Fern ández Clara Coscoll á Susan Source Type: research
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