Determination of farm workers' exposure to pesticides by hair analysis

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 203-210

  Schummer, Claude ^a,c   Salquèbre, Guillaume ^a   Briand, Olivier ^b   Millet, Maurice ^c   Appenzeller, Brice M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b FRENCH AGENCY FOR FOOD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Farm workers; Hair analysis; Human exposure; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; ACETOCHOR; ALACHLOR; ANILINOPYRIMIDINE; BENOXACOR; CAPTAN; CHLOROTHALONIL; CLOMAZONE; CYPRODINIL; DICHLORVOS; DIFLUFENICAN; DIMETHACHLOR; ENDOSULFAN; ETHOFURNESATE; FENPROPIDINE; FUNGICIDE; HERBICIDE; LINDANE; METALAXYL; METOLACHLOR; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOCHLORINE INSECTICIDE; PENDIMETHALIN; PESTICIDE; PYRIMETHANIL; SPIROXAMINE; TETRACONAZOLE; TOLYLFLUANID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VINCLOZOLIN;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MOLECULE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; VOLUNTEER;

AGRICULTURE; CEREALS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HAIR; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VITIS;

EID: 84859159916     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: 18793169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2011.11.019     Document Type: Article

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