Pesticide exposures for residents living close to agricultural lands: A review

Dereumeaux, Clémentine; Fillol, Clémence; Quénel, Philippe; Denys, Sébastien

doi:10.1016/j.envint.2019.105210

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“…The type of exposure that presents most risk for human health is the inhalation of dust, airborne droplets, vapors or gas, where smaller particles reach the alveoli and some can enter the bloodstream directly. The literature has found higher pesticide concentrations in blood and urine tests, and in both outdoor and indoor surface deposition of chlorpyrifos, in residences located within 60 meters, 100 meters and up to 250 meters of agricultural fields (Coronado et al, 2011;van Wendel de Joode et al, 2012;Deziel et al, 2017;Gibbs et al, 2017;Dereumeaux et al, 2020). Benner et al (2014) examine glyphosate aerial drift distances and find the presence of high concentrations of glyphosate in areas located within the first 226 meters from the pollution source 9 .…”

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“…We compute for each mother 100 buffers of 25 meters assuming that exposure completely vanishes beyond 2.5 kilometers. Moreover, we follow the literature on air pollution (Currie et al, 2009;Currie et al, 2015;Gemmil et al, 2013;Larsen et al 2017;Gibbs et al, 2017;Dereumeaux et al, 2020) and consider that most of the effect of pesticides is concentrated in the area close to the plantations and that the effects quickly decay with the distance. Figure C6 in Appendix C illustrates different combinations of the parameters and for the weighing function in (1) that we consider in our analysis.…”

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The Hidden Cost of Bananas: Pesticide Effects on Newborns’ Health

Calzada

Gisbert

2021

SSRN Journal

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We study the effects of aerial fumigation of banana plantations on newborns' birth weight during the period 2015-2017 in Ecuador. We use mothers' addresses and information on the perimeter of the plantations to create an individual measure of newborns' exposure to pesticides. We use this measure to implement three independent identification strategies to address the endogeneity of exposure to aerial fumigations. First, we consider a difference-indifferences strategy that exploits seasonal variations in the use of pesticides across provinces.Second, we estimate a difference-in-differences model that considers geographical variations in the use of pesticides across comparable crops. Third, and finally, we estimate a maternal fixed effects model to examine the effect of pesticides on siblings who had a different residence during gestation and who were exposed to different levels of fumigations. Our first empirical model shows that newborns exposed to pesticides, when their first gestational trimester coincides with the periods of intensive fumigations of the plantations, have a birth weight reduction of between 38 and 89 grams. Moreover, exposure to pesticides increases the likelihood of low birth weight and low Apgar score at the first minute by around 0.35 and 0.33, respectively. The second model finds that newborns exposed to fumigated banana plantations have a birth weight deficit of between 29 and 76 grams, when compared to those exposed to other fumigated crops. Finally, the maternal fixed effect model shows that girl newborns exposed to pesticides have a birth weight deficit of 346 grams when compared to non-exposed siblings.

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Section: Pesticides and Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Exposure Analysismentioning

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The Hidden Cost of Bananas: Pesticide Effects on Newborns’ Health

Calzada

Gisbert

2021

SSRN Journal

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“…Additionally, farm production areas have expanded into historical buffer areas. With small distances between farms and sensitive areas, drift can cause contamination of indoor spaces and people, or crop residue or injury issues on adjacent non‐target crops 30 . Spray buffers vary within a region and around the world with examples within the European Union (EU) and the USA ranging between 10 and 30 m 31,32 .…”

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Canopy spray application technology in specialty crops: a slowly evolving landscape

Warneke

Zhu

Pscheidt

et al. 2020

Pest Management Science

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Many specialty crops are susceptible to insects and diseases, and as such are reliant on regular canopy pesticide applications to achieve quality attributes required for salability. The majority of specialty crop producers continue to use antiquated pesticide application technologies for directed canopy spraying such as the radial air blast sprayer that has been associated with chemical wastage and off‐target drift of around 40% and 15% of total applied spray volume, respectively. However, precision sprayers are available that result in remarkable improvements to these parameters. The wide‐scale adoption of precision sprayers by specialty crop producers remains low. Reasons for the continued dominance of old technologies include risk averseness of farmers and regulatory bottlenecks. However, as farm labor becomes more expensive, less available, and consumers and regulations favor sustainably produced products, motivations to improve spray application efficiency are increasing. While there are many opportunities and future directions application technology may take, sensor‐controlled sprayer technology that applies a proportionate amount of spray will likely be the primary technology of precision sprayers going into the future. © 2020 Society of Chemical Industry

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“…Occupational pesticide exposure has been associated with different health effects including diseases of the respiratory tract [ 1 , 2 ], cancer [ 3 ], and neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson disease [ 4 , 5 ]. Although residents are likely exposed to lower concentrations than are occupationally exposed individuals, they are continuously exposed because of spray drift and transport of pesticides volatilizing from nearby agricultural land to their homes [ 6 ]. In addition, possible accumulation of pesticides in the home environment [ 7 ] can contribute to higher and prolonged exposure of those residents [ 8 ] compared with urban residents.…”

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Pesticide Exposure of Residents Living Close to Agricultural Fields in the Netherlands: Protocol for an Observational Study

Figueiredo¹,

Krop²,

Duyzer³

et al. 2021

JMIR Res Protoc

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Background Application of pesticides in the vicinity of homes has caused concern regarding possible health effects in residents living nearby. However, the high spatiotemporal variation of pesticide levels and lack of knowledge regarding the contribution of exposure routes greatly complicates exposure assessment approaches. Objective The objective of this paper was to describe the study protocol of a large exposure survey in the Netherlands assessing pesticide exposure of residents living close (<250 m) to agricultural fields; to better understand possible routes of exposure; to develop an integrative exposure model for residential exposure; and to describe lessons learned. Methods We performed an observational study involving residents living in the vicinity of agricultural fields and residents living more than 500 m away from any agricultural fields (control subjects). Residential exposures were measured both during a pesticide use period after a specific application and during the nonuse period for 7 and 2 days, respectively. We collected environmental samples (outdoor and indoor air, dust, and garden and field soils) and personal samples (urine and hand wipes). We also collected data on spraying applications as well as on home characteristics, participants' demographics, and food habits via questionnaires and diaries. Environmental samples were analyzed for 46 prioritized pesticides. Urine samples were analyzed for biomarkers of a subset of 5 pesticides. Alongside the field study, and by taking spray events and environmental data into account, we developed a modeling framework to estimate environmental exposure of residents to pesticides. Results Our study was conducted between 2016 and 2019. We assessed 96 homes and 192 participants, including 7 growers and 28 control subjects. We followed 14 pesticide applications, applying 20 active ingredients. We collected 4416 samples: 1018 air, 445 dust (224 vacuumed floor, 221 doormat), 265 soil (238 garden, 27 fields), 2485 urine, 112 hand wipes, and 91 tank mixtures. Conclusions To our knowledge, this is the first study on residents’ exposure to pesticides addressing all major nondietary exposure sources and routes (air, soil, dust). Our protocol provides insights on used sampling techniques, the wealth of data collected, developed methods, modeling framework, and lessons learned. Resources and data are open for future collaborations on this important topic. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) RR1-10.2196/27883

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Pesticide exposures for residents living close to agricultural lands: A review

Cited by 124 publications

References 91 publications

The Hidden Cost of Bananas: Pesticide Effects on Newborns’ Health

The Hidden Cost of Bananas: Pesticide Effects on Newborns’ Health

Canopy spray application technology in specialty crops: a slowly evolving landscape

Pesticide Exposure of Residents Living Close to Agricultural Fields in the Netherlands: Protocol for an Observational Study

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