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Exposure and Risk Assessment of Pesticide Use in Agriculture

Approaches, Tools and Advances

  • 1st Edition - November 25, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Claudio Colosio, Aristidis M. Tsatsakis, Stefan Mandic-Rajcevic, Athanasios Alegakis
  • Language: English

Exposure and Risk Assessment of Pesticide Use in Agriculture: Approaches, Tools and Advances offers an overview of the different methods available in toxicology for pesticide… Read more

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Description

Exposure and Risk Assessment of Pesticide Use in Agriculture: Approaches, Tools and Advances offers an overview of the different methods available in toxicology for pesticide exposure and risk assessment, ranging from the regulatory field, to in-field research studies. The book provides technical background on each method, describing known and grounded tools, new uses of tools and development prospects. This book is ideal for researchers in pesticide toxicology, exposure toxicology, toxicologic risk assessment, occupational hygiene and medicine, and pesticide toxicology as well as occupational health and industrial hygiene practitioners, regulatory experts of corporate and public bodies, and advanced students.

Key features

  • Covers pesticide exposure and risk assessment, ranging from fundamentals to advanced theory
  • Explains methods that are useful for both experts and non-experts
  • Details the use of each method for exposure and risk assessment, also including links to additional resources and further reading

Readership

Researchers in pesticide toxicology, exposure toxicology, toxicologic risk assessment, occupational hygiene and medicine. Occupational health and Industrial hygiene practitioners. Regulatory experts of corporate and public bodies. Advanced students in chemical, environment and life sciences

Table of contents

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

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 25, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Claudio Colosio

Prof. Claudio Colosio, M.D., is an expert in the field of pesticide exposure and risk assessment in all phases covered by the book (from registration to the field use).
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Health Sciences of the University of Milan and International Centre for Rural Health, Milan, Italy

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Aristidis M. Tsatsakis

Aristidis Tsatsakis is Director of the Department of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences of the Medical School at the University of Crete and the University Hospital of Heraklion. He has more than 1000 publications, including 700 in ISI journals and is extensively cited. He was EUROTOX President (2014–16) and still an Emeritus Professor for the Federal Institute of Hygiene and Toxicology in Moscow. He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the Mendeleev Moscow University, the Far East Federal University (FEFU), Vladivostok, and the Carol Davila in Bucharest. He is a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Russia (FMRAS) and a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences (FATS, United States). He is the creator, founder, and chief scientific officer of ToxPlus SA. He developed numerous biomarkers of exposure and of effects for the pesticide and chemical toxicology field, uncovering the mechanistic understanding of the mode of actions, adverse outcome pathways, and clinical affects. He is currently the Editor of Food Chemical Toxicology, Editor-in-Chief of Toxicology Reports, Guest Editor of four special issues in Toxicology Letters, Toxicology and Food and Chemical Toxicology journals, Guest Editor of the RIFM-Food and Chemical Toxicology issue, Associate Editor, and member of the Editorial Boards in several other ISI indexed journals. He has also been recognized as Highly Cited Researcher 2020 in the field of Pharmacology–Toxicology (Publons).
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Department of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences, Medical School, University of Crete, University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece

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Stefan Mandic-Rajcevic

Stefan Mandic-Rajcevic, M.D., Ph.D., is an expert in the field of pesticide exposure and risk assessment in all phases covered by the book (from registration to the field use).
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Health Sciences of the University of Milan and International Centre for Rural Health, Milan, Italy

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Athanasios Alegakis

Athanasios Alegakis, Ph.D. is an expert in the field of pesticide exposure and risk assessment in all phases covered by the book (from registration to the field use).
Affiliations and expertise
Toxicology Science and Research Centre, Department of Forensic Sciences, Medical School, University of Crete, Greece

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