Exposure and Risk Assessment of Pesticide Use in Agriculture: Approaches, Tools and Advances

ISBN-13: 9780128124666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 530 str.

Claudio Colosio; Aristidis M. Tsatsakis; Stefan Mandic-Rajcevic

Spis treści

Section I - Regulatory exposure and risk assessment 1. From regulation to risk assessment

2. Models used in the world 3. Improving the models for regulatory exposure and risk assessment 4. Limit values definition and practical use

Section II - Exposure and risk assessment in field studies 5. Introduction to pesticide exposure monitoring 6. Skin Exposure: Whole-body and patch approaches 7. Respiratory exposure monitoring 8. Biological monitoring 9. Imitations of exposure monitoring methods and the way forward 10. Examples of exposure 11. Influence of environmental parameters on real-life exposure studies

Section III - Exposure and risk assessment for epidemiological studies 12. Introduction to epidemiological studies on pesticide exposure and effects - surrogate measures 13. Task exposure matrices 14. Questionnaires and Ranking models

Section IV - Future advances in exposure and risk assessment 15. Exposure and risk profiles 16. The interpretation of biological monitoring data: definition of biological exposure limits. 17. New biological monitoring methods 18. Tracer substances 19. Issues on risk assessment 20. Mixtures 21. Greenhouses