Effect of Endocrine Disruptor Pesticides: A Review
By Wissem Mnif, A. Hassine, A. Bouaziz, A. Bartegi, O. Thomas, B. Roig. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2011
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Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC) are compounds that alter the normal functioning of the endocrine system of both wildlife and humans. A huge number of chemicals have been identified as endocrine disruptors, among them several pesticides. Pesticides are used to kill unwanted organisms in crops, public areas, homes and gardens, and parasites in medicine. Human are exposed to pesticides due to their occupations or through dietary and environmental exposure (water, soil, air). For several years, there have been enquiries about the impact of environmental factors on the occurrence of human pathologies. This paper reviews the current knowledge of the potential impacts of endocrine disruptor pesticides on human health.
Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Plant Science, Pollution
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Citations in the corpus
- Agriculture Development, Pesticide Application and Its Impact on the Environment (2021, background): “For example, fungicides are used to kill fungi, insecticides are used to kill insects, while herbicides are used to kill weeds [21,22].”
- Chemical Pesticides and Human Health: The Urgent Need for a New Concept in Agriculture (2016, background): “Triazines, such as atrazine, simazine, and ametryn, are another class of chemical pesticides that have been related to endocrinedisrupting effects and reproductive toxicity (10, 102, 103).”
- Exposure to pesticides and the associated human health effects. (2017, background): “Other pesticides have also been developed to influence the nervous system or to act on the endocrine or hormone systems of pests for their control (Mnif et al., 2011).”