Exposure of Male Farmers and Nonfarmers to Neonicotinoid Pesticides in the South‐West and Littoral Regions of Cameroon: A Comparative Study
Faustin Pascal Tsagué Manfo,
Collins Nimako,
Edouard Akono Nantia
et al.
Abstract:Pesticides, especially the newly developed neonicotinoids, are increasingly used in many countries around the world, including Cameroon, to control pests involved in crop destruction or disease transmission. Unfortunately, the pesticides also pose tremendous environmental problems because a predominant amount of their residues enter environmental matrices to affect other nontargeted species including humans. This therefore calls for continuous biomonitoring of these insecticides in human populations. The prese… Show more
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