Health effects of particulate matter formation in Life Cycle Impact Assessment: critical review and recommendation of models for Brazil

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Characterizing country-specific human and ecosystem health impact and damage cost of agricultural pesticides: the case for Thailand

“…A regionalized assessment considers geographical differences using parameters related to pesticide emission conditions such as territory, wind speed, temperature, runoff, rain rate, etc. that are generally considered to present the sensitivity of pesticides in the environment or refer to pesticide residues in the crops (Fantke 2019;Giusti et al 2022). To quantify the sensitivity of important pesticides in environments associated with spatial parameters of Thailand, the obtained endpoint CFs from the adapted USEtox with Thailand-specific data illustrate the differences when compared with the global average factors, ranging from 1 to 169% for human toxicity CFs and from 0.1 to 3587% for ecotoxicity CFs (Table 2).…”