Estimating Pesticide Exposure from Dietary Intake and Organic Food Choices: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) | Zendy

Cynthia L. Curl | Zendy; Shirley A.A. Beresford | Zendy; Richard A. Fenske | Zendy; Annette L. Fitzpatrick | Zendy; Chensheng Lu | Zendy; Jennifer A. Nettleton | Zendy; Joel D. Kaufman | Zendy

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Estimating Pesticide Exposure from Dietary Intake and Organic Food Choices: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

Author(s) -

Cynthia L. Curl,

Shirley A.A. Beresford,

Richard A. Fenske,

Annette L. Fitzpatrick,

Chensheng Lu,

Jennifer A. Nettleton,

Joel D. Kaufman

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1408197

Subject(s) - medicine , environmental health , population , food consumption , pesticide , national health and nutrition examination survey , exposure assessment , toxicology , zoology , biology , agricultural economics , agronomy , economics

Organophosphate pesticide (OP) exposure to the U.S. population is dominated by dietary intake. The magnitude of exposure from diet depends partly on personal decisions such as which foods to eat and whether to choose organic food. Most studies of OP exposure rely on urinary biomarkers, which are limited by short half-lives and often lack specificity to parent compounds. A reliable means of estimating long-term dietary exposure to individual OPs is needed to assess the potential relationship with adverse health effects.

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