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Asa Bradman

• Effect of organic diet intervention on pesticide exposures in young children living in low-income urban and agricultural communities

  Recent organic diet intervention studies suggest that diet is a significant source of pesticide exposure in young children. These studies have focused on children living in suburban communities. The objective

  • 10/04/2015

  • Environmental Health Perspectives
  • • Organic Foods
    • Child Health
    • California
    • Food Contamination
    • Pesticide Use
    • Synthetic Pyrethroids
    • Organophosphates
    • United States Of America (US)
    • Chlorpyriphos
    • Diazinon
    • Agriculture

• Comparison of current-use pesticide and other toxicant urinary metabolite levels among pregnant women in the CHAMACOS Cohort

  Few studies have investigated maternal exposures during pregnancy to pesticides currently in use. Castorina et al. measured metabolites of current-use pesticides and other precursor compounds in urine samples collected twice during pregnancy from 538 California women enrolled in the Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas (CHAMACOS) cohort.

  • 01/06/2010

  • Environmental Health Perspectives
  • • Agriculture
    • Health Effects
    • Women
    • Maternal Health
    • Occupational Health
    • Pesticides And Toxins
    • Pesticide Use
    • California
    • Environmental Health Perspectives
    • Rosemary Castorina
    • Asa Bradman
    • Laura Fenster & et al