Chapter 6 - Persistence of pesticides and their impacts on human health and environment

Abstract

Pesticide is a complex word that encompasses all compounds which are applied to destroy or regulate pests, which include insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides. Pesticide is one of the intensive anthropogenic sources of pollution in the environment which affects the population of flora and fauna and ultimately negatively affects human health. Many researchers have demonstrated about different pesticides and their metabolites, even they can be accumulated in the food products during the exposure for the long time and in multiple manners, transmitted through the food chain, accumulate in the human body and thereby affects the genetic status and health of the population. This chapter focuses on pesticide exposure during the pregnancy which is thought to adversely affect fetal growth, which in turn may impact child growth. An increasing body of evidence indicates the prenatal exposure to various environmental chemicals which may have been liked to interfere with nano development even causes lasting effects throughout the life course. One of the primary sponsors of the green revolution was finding ways to improve and use safe pesticides to control the wide range of herbal and insects, which negatively affects the quantity and quality of world food production.