0278 The PESTIMAT program: development of a crop exposure matrix for pesticide exposure assessment in agriculture0278 The PESTIMAT program: development of a crop exposure matrix for pesticide exposure assessment in agriculture. (23rd June 2014)
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- 0278 The PESTIMAT program: development of a crop exposure matrix for pesticide exposure assessment in agriculture0278 The PESTIMAT program: development of a crop exposure matrix for pesticide exposure assessment in agriculture. (23rd June 2014)
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- 0278 The PESTIMAT program: development of a crop exposure matrix for pesticide exposure assessment in agriculture0278 The PESTIMAT program: development of a crop exposure matrix for pesticide exposure assessment in agriculture
- Authors:
- Baldi, Isabelle
Carles, Camille
Cantagrel, Anne
Lecluse, Yannick
Niez, Elodie
Fabbro-Peray, Pascale
Lebailly, Pierre - Abstract:
- Abstract : Objectives: Pesticides include ˜1000 chemicals with various toxicological properties. Pesticide exposure assessment represents a crucial methodological issue for epidemiological studies. A reconstitution of pesticides used in entire professional careers based only on the memory is questionable. PESTIMAT is a crop exposure matrix, which intends to reconstitute parameters of pesticide exposure in France. Method: PESTIMAT is made of tables crossing crops and active ingredients (a.i.) by year from 1950 to 2010 and providing the following exposure parameters: 1) probability corresponding to the proportion of farmers having used the a.i. (in%), 2) frequency expressed as the number of treatment days, 3) intensity documented by the application rate of the a.i. (in kg/ha). Parameters were obtained by the combination of six complementary sources: i) registrations and withdrawals from the Agriculture Ministry, ii) information from ACTA* on products marketed iii) agricultural recommendations by the Plant Health Protection body, iv) treatment calendars provided by farmers, v) information from professionnal associations of farmers, vi) data from the industry Results: To date, 529 a.i. usable between 1950 and 2010 on 4 crops are included in PESTIMAT, corresponding to 160 fungicides (30%), 160 herbicides (30%) and 209 insecticides (40%). The total numbers were comparable on wheat/barley (N = 293), vineyards (N = 280), and apple-growing (N = 267) but lower on corn (N = 196). WeAbstract : Objectives: Pesticides include ˜1000 chemicals with various toxicological properties. Pesticide exposure assessment represents a crucial methodological issue for epidemiological studies. A reconstitution of pesticides used in entire professional careers based only on the memory is questionable. PESTIMAT is a crop exposure matrix, which intends to reconstitute parameters of pesticide exposure in France. Method: PESTIMAT is made of tables crossing crops and active ingredients (a.i.) by year from 1950 to 2010 and providing the following exposure parameters: 1) probability corresponding to the proportion of farmers having used the a.i. (in%), 2) frequency expressed as the number of treatment days, 3) intensity documented by the application rate of the a.i. (in kg/ha). Parameters were obtained by the combination of six complementary sources: i) registrations and withdrawals from the Agriculture Ministry, ii) information from ACTA* on products marketed iii) agricultural recommendations by the Plant Health Protection body, iv) treatment calendars provided by farmers, v) information from professionnal associations of farmers, vi) data from the industry Results: To date, 529 a.i. usable between 1950 and 2010 on 4 crops are included in PESTIMAT, corresponding to 160 fungicides (30%), 160 herbicides (30%) and 209 insecticides (40%). The total numbers were comparable on wheat/barley (N = 293), vineyards (N = 280), and apple-growing (N = 267) but lower on corn (N = 196). We will present an illustration with data obtained for dithiocarbamates fungicides, and examples of use in epidemiological studies, e.g. PHYTONER and AGRICAN cohorts. Conclusions: The multisource information available in the PESTIMAT matrix should enable to assess associations between pesticides and health at the a.i. level. … (more)
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- Occupational and environmental medicine. Volume 71(2014)Supplement 1
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- Occupational and environmental medicine
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- Volume 71(2014)Supplement 1
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- Volume 71, Issue 1 (2014)
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- 2014
- Volume:
- 71
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2014-0071-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- A35
- Page End:
- A35
- Publication Date:
- 2014-06-23
- Subjects:
- Medicine, Industrial -- Periodicals
Environmental health -- Periodicals
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http://www.bmj.com/archive ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1136/oemed-2014-102362.108 ↗
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- 1351-0711
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