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Integrated pest management

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Pesticides use in gardening areas in Burkina Faso and evaluation of the resulting risk for the operator using the new AOEM proposed by EFSA guidelines

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Edouard René Gilbert Lehmann, Jean-Jacques Stéphane Nfon Dibie

Pesticides are widely used in gardening to maintain high yield, prevent diseases and control pests and rodents. Field surveys conducted in Burkina Faso have underlined the lack of knowledge regarding good agricultural practices and the use of unsuitable an ...

2016

Biodegradability of HCH in agricultural soils from Guadeloupe (French West Indies): identification of lin genes, involved in HCH degradation pathway

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro

Banana has been a main agricultural product in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe and Martinique) since the 1960s. This crop requires the intensive use of pesticides to prevent attacks by insect pests. Chlorinated pesticides, such as hexachlorocyclohexane ...

Springer Heidelberg2016

Determination of sulfonylurea herbicides in surface water using polar organic chemical integrative samplers (POCIS)

Dominique Grandjean, Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Nicolas Estoppey

Sulfonylurea herbicides represent new pollutants of growing concern, which requires their continuous monitoring in the aquatic environment. Widely used for pre and post emergence control of broadleaf and grassy weeds in different crops, designed to offer a ...

2015

A Distributed Intelligent Sensing Approach for Environmental Monitoring Applications

William Christopher Evans

Scientific reports from around the world present us with the undeniable fact that the global ecosystem is undergoing severe change. As this shift accelerates, it is ever more critical that we are able to quantify the local effects of such changes, and furt ...

EPFL2015

Pseudomonas entomophila: A Versatile Bacterium with Entomopathogenic Properties

Bruno Lemaitre, Onya Opota, Guennaëlle Dieppois

Pseudomonas entomophila is unique among Pseudomonas species in being able to activate a systemic immune response in both Drosophila larvae and adults. It has been subsequently shown that oral infections with high doses of this bacterium are highly pathogen ...

Springer2014

Pesticide Flow Analysis to Assess Human Exposure in Greenhouse Flower Production in Colombia

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Human exposure assessment tools represent a means for understanding human exposure to pesticides in agricultural activities and managing possible health risks. This paper presents a pesticide flow analysis modeling approach developed to assess human exposu ...

MDPI2013

The Insecticide Imidacloprid Causes Mortality of the Freshwater Amphipod Gammarus pulex by Interfering with Feeding Behavior

Kristin Schirmer

If an organism does not feed, it dies of starvation. Even though some insecticides which are used to control pests in agriculture can interfere with feeding behavior of insects and other invertebrates, the link from chemical exposure via affected feeding a ...

Public Library Science2013

Evaluation of models for dermal exposure assessment in farming systems in developing countries

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Dermal Exposure Assessment is a crucial aspect within the risk assessment of pesticide use as it may lead to the development and improvement of measures to reduce the health risk of pesticides users. Even though, tools for dermal exposure assessment are av ...

2013

Parameterization Models for Pesticide Exposure via Crop Consumption

An approach for estimating human exposure to pesticides via consumption of six important food crops is presented that can be used to extend multimedia models applied in health risk and life cycle impact assessment. We first assessed the variation of model ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

Dermal exposure assessment of pesticide use: The case of sprayers in potato farms in the Colombian highlands

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Quantifying dermal exposure to pesticides in farming systems in developing countries is of special interest for the estimation of potential health risks, especially when there is a lack of occupational hygiene regulations. In this paper we present the resu ...

Elsevier2012

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