Abstract
Urinary Concentrations of Insecticide and Herbicide Metabolites among Pregnant Women in Rural Ghana: A Pilot Study
Highlights
Prenatal exposure to nonpersistent pesticides has been linked to adverse impacts on neurodevelopment, for organophosphates, and for pyrethroids [1,2,3,4,5]
As only pyrethroid insecticides are approved for use to treat bednets in Ghana, we explored whether 3-phenoxybenzoic acid (3-PBA) concentrations, a pyrethroid metabolite detected in many of our participants, varied by ownership and utilization of bednets
We demonstrated widespread pesticide exposure from the frequent detection of urinary concentrations of metabolites of organophosphate and pyrethroid insecticides, as well as select herbicides, in a sample of 17 pregnant women residing in an agricultural setting in Ghana, West Africa
Summary
Prenatal exposure to nonpersistent pesticides has been linked to adverse impacts on neurodevelopment, for organophosphates, and for pyrethroids [1,2,3,4,5]. Res. Public Health 2017, 14, 354; doi:10.3390/ijerph14040354 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph
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