Level of endosulfan among women in Talwandi Sabo Block of Southern Punjab, India
| Autor: | Roumi Deb, Noopur Sharma, Ratika Samtani |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0301 basic medicine Insecticides Chromatography Gas Health Behavior 030106 microbiology Population India Developing country Biology Toxicology Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound organochlorine pesticides 0302 clinical medicine Occupational Exposure Humans 030212 general & internal medicine education Endosulfan Organ system education.field_of_study Farmers business.industry lcsh:Public aspects of medicine Organochlorine pesticide Agriculture lcsh:RA1-1270 General Medicine Research needs Middle Aged Pesticide Socioeconomic Factors chemistry Female women business |
| Zdroj: | Indian Journal of Public Health, Vol 63, Iss 1, Pp 83-85 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 0019-557X |
| DOI: | 10.4103/ijph.ijph_363_17 |
| Popis: | Endosulfan is one of the most prevalent organochlorine pesticides used in the agricultural sector in the developing countries including India. It affects the physiological functioning of different organ systems including nervous, immune, hepatic, and reproductive system. Realizing the safety and health concern, restrictions have been imposed at various levels, but the usage has still continued in the plantation crops. Owing to pesticide beneficiary of north India, the cotton belt commonly called the Malwa region of Punjab was evaluated for identifying the levels of Endosulfan in the blood samples of women working in agricultural fields. Gas chromatograph with electron capture detector was used for detecting the levels of endosulfan metabolites among twenty active female workers. The mean level of endosulfan recorded in the tested population was observed to be 2.22 ppb. It is difficult to draw a certain conclusion based on these findings because the subjects were less in number. However, detection of even very low concentrations of endosulfan residues signifies its continued accessibility to the women population. Encouragement of more such population-based research needs to be adopted to determine the body burden of such pesticides in humans. The effective implementation of the ban on Endosulfan could be checked by a combined retrospective and prospective study to infer a justifiable impact. |
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