Potential Operator Exposure to Procymidone in Greenhouses
| Autor: | Marco Trevisan, G Minuto, Ettore Capri, C R Glass, R Alberici |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Inhalation exposure
Inhalation Exposure Greenhouse Agriculture General Chemistry Pesticide Contamination Risk Assessment Dermal exposure Fungicides Industrial Europe Toxicology Bridged Bicyclo Compounds chemistry.chemical_compound Operator (computer programming) Protective Clothing chemistry Occupational Exposure Humans Environmental science media_common.cataloged_instance Procymidone European union General Agricultural and Biological Sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 47:4443-4449 |
| ISSN: | 1520-5118 0021-8561 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/jf990175w |
| Popis: | Recent legislation in the European Union requires regulators of member states to carry out risk assessments using data for actual or potential operator exposure, or estimates of exposure from models. However, the existing models have few datasets from studies carried out on greenhouse or indoor crops, particularly in southern Europe. In this study potential dermal and inhalatory exposures were measured in two trials in Italian greenhouses. The total potential dermal operator exposure of the applicator, measured with a whole-body passive dosimetry method, was 15.4 and 37.1 mL/h of the diluted pesticide mixture. The majority of the contamination was on the hands and on the lower part of the coverall. Approximately 0. 003% of the active ingredient (ai) applied to the crop area contaminated the coverall worn by the operator. The potential dermal exposure during the mixing and loading phase accounted for 6-8% of the total potential dermal exposure during the whole process. Inhalation exposure accounted for only 0.05-0.07% of the total potential operator exposure. Model predictions of the potential operator exposure using a modified version of the German model overestimate the mixing-loading exposure while underestimating the application exposure. These data are evidence that the estimation coefficient set for hand-held application to ornamental and horticultural crops may be inadequate for the agronomic conditions of southern Europe. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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