Population-based biomonitoring of exposure to organophosphate and pyrethroid pesticides in New York city

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 11-12, 2013, Pages 1349-1356

  McKelvey, Wendy ^a   Jacobson, J Bryan ^a   Kass, Daniel ^a   Barr, Dana Boyd ^b   Davis, Mark ^c   Calafat, Antonia M ^c   Aldous, Kenneth M ^d  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,2 DIMETHYLCYCLOPROPANE 1 CARBOXYLIC ACID; 3 PHENOXYBENZOIC ACID; CREATININE; DIALKYLPHOSPATE; DIETHYLTHIOPHOSPHATE; DITHIOPHOSPHORIC ACID DIMETHYL ESTER; O,O DIMETHYLTHIOPHOSPHORIC ACID; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PHOSPHORIC ACID DIETHYL ESTER; PHOSPHORIC ACID DIMETHYL ESTER; PHOSPHORODITHIOIC ACID O,O DIETHYL ESTER; PYRETHROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FRUIT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; METABOLITE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE POISONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; VEGETABLE;

ADULT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; NEW YORK CITY; ORGANOPHOSPHATES; PESTICIDES; PYRETHRINS; REFERENCE VALUES; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84888409137     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1206015     Document Type: Article

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