Concentrations of urinary pesticide metabolites in small-scale farmers in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 655-668

  Panuwet, Parinya ^a,b   Prapamontol, Tippawan ^a   Chantara, Somporn ^a   Thavornyuthikarn, Prasak ^a   Montesano, M Angela ^b   Whitehead Jr , Ralph D ^b   Barr, Dana B ^b  

^a CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Exposure assessment; Farmers; Pesticides; Urinary metabolites

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; BIOMOLECULES; BODY FLUIDS; CULTIVATION; ETHYLENE; HERBICIDES; INSECTICIDES; METABOLITES; PESTICIDES;

ALACHLOR; BIOMONITORING; CHLORPYRIFOS; CROP PRODUCTIONS; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; FARMERS; FIELD SIZES; HIGHER CONCENTRATIONS; METABOLITE CONCENTRATIONS; METHYL PARATHIONS; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS INSECTICIDES; POTENTIAL FACTORS; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENTS; PYRETHROID INSECTICIDES; RESEARCH GOALS; THAILAND; URINARY METABOLITES;

AGRICULTURE;

CHLORPYRIFOS; FUNGICIDE; INSECTICIDE; PESTICIDE; PYRETHROID;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CROP PRODUCTION; METABOLITE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; URINE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THAILAND; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; CREATININE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; THAILAND; YOUNG ADULT;

ASIA; CHIANG MAI [NORTHERN REGION]; EURASIA; NORTHERN REGION [THAILAND]; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

EID: 56349093357     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.08.044     Document Type: Article

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