Organic diets significantly lower children's dietary exposure to organophosphorus pesticides

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 260-263

  Lu, Chensheng ^a,d   Toepel, Kathryn ^b   Irish, Rene ^b   Fenske, Richard A ^b   Barr, Dana B ^c   Bravo, Roberto ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Children's pesticide exposure; Chlorpyrifos; Dietary pesticide exposure; Malathion; Organic diet; Organophosphorus pesticides; Uninary biomonitoring

Indexed keywords

CHLORPYRIFOS; MALATHION; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URINALYSIS;

AGRICULTURE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH FOOD; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PESTICIDES;

EID: 32044445089     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8418     Document Type: Article

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