Full 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.
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
