Impacts of DBCP on participants in the agricultural industry in a third world nation (an industrial health, safety case study of a village at risk)

Chronic Kidney Disease Associated With Environmental Toxins and Exposures

“…66 In a study from an unidentified Latin American country, agricultural workers with reported exposure to dibromochloropropane were more likely to have elevated serum creatinine levels, although exposure to the chemical was not clearly documented nor was it detectable in water samples from the work environment. 67 Because of the short half-life in the environment and the possibility that remote exposure may lead to toxicity, establishing a link between agrichemical use and CKD will be difficult.…”

Pathogenic Effects of Ethion Residues and the Expected Protective Role of the Ethanolic Extract of Rosemary (Rosmarinus Officinalis L.) Leaves in Male Rats

“…Kidney is one of the target organs of experimental animals attacked by OP compounds [58]. Pesticides can alter plasma urea, uric acid, and creatinine levels [58,59]. EER supplementation to rats feed on maize containing ethion residues (as in G4) revealed a significant (P<0.001) decrease in creatinine and urea levels when compared with treated group (G3).…”

The Caribbean Lowland Evergreen Moist and Wet Forests

“…Although the use of pesticides has certainly led to increased food production-the so-called Green Revolution- (Cooper and Dobson 2007), some of these positive effects are being lost through evolving resistance to the chemicals by pests and non-target organisms (Brausch and Smith 2009, Nolte 2011, Raymond et al 2001 or offset by various direct and indirect calculated costs of pesticide use. Pesticides have been shown to have serious human health consequences, both acute (Soares and Porto 2009) and chronic (Abhilash and Singh 2009, Charboneau and Koger 2008, Nag and Raikwar 2011, Yearout et al 2008, as well as a range of environmental impacts including soil and water contamination (Liess and von der Ohe 2005) and non-target organism toxicity (Berny 2007, Kendall and Smith 2003, Pisani et al 2008. The role of pesticides in the endocrine and developmental disruption of wildlife and humans (see Buchanan et al 2009, Casals-Casas and Desvegne 2011, Mnif et al 2011, Soin and Smagghe 2007 for reviews) is also becoming an increasingly powerful concern.…”