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Does eating organic food reduce pesticide exposure and health risks? : Consommation d'aliments biologiques réduit-elle l'exposition aux pesticides et les risques pour la santé

11 May 2010

For example, pesticide Available data suggest that exposures can occur from the inhalation of organically-grown food contains fewer indoor and outdoor air, ingestion of dust from synthetic pesticide residues than hand-to-mouth or object-to-mouth activities, conventionally-grown food, and that ingestion of contaminated soil or water, and eating an organic diet can result in dermal absorption from [...] However, there is currently no hard between pesticide exposures and certain evidence that conventional food has a cancer and non-cancer effects, particularly in higher level of risk than organic food, occupational settings, but other studies have due to a lack of research on the yielded inconsistent results or found no clear relative health risks and benefits of evidence of risk.8-11. [...] In Canada, organic food consumption and Food items typically found to have the greatest production has grown dramatically over time, with detections and highest concentrations of synthetic 3,317 organic farms (1.3% of all farms) identified in pesticide residues include raw fruits and vegetables, 2003.15. [...] For example, in a study of were found to have significantly lower levels of total pesticide residue data from three test programmes in dimethyl metabolites in their urine than did children the United States, organic fruits and vegetables were with mostly conventional diets, although total diethyl found to have fewer detections of synthetic pesticide metabolite levels did not differ across the two [...] Children switched to organic diets for five organic fruits and vegetables were found to have a consecutive days in the summer and fall, and urinary lower detection frequency of synthetic pesticide 2 metabolites of five OP pesticides and five pyrethroid Availability of food – consumers may have limited insecticides were analyzed at least twice daily during access to organically-grown food, partic
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ISBN
9780981264615
Pages
7
Published in
Canada

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