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Passive monitoring techniques to evaluate environmental pesticide exposure: results from the Infant's Environmental Health study (ISA)
(Elsevier, 2020-02-08)
Background: Pesticides used in agriculture may expose populations living nearby. Costa Rica is a major bananaexporting country, its production depends on extensive pesticide use.
Objectives: To evaluate environmental ...
Prenatal mancozeb exposure, excess manganese, and neurodevelopment at 1 year of age in the Infants' Environmental Health (ISA) study
(Environmental Health Perspectives, 2018-05-29)
BACKGROUND: Although growing evidence suggests that early-life excess manganese (Mn) impairs neurodevelopment, data on the neurodevelopmental effects of mancozeb, a fungicide containing Mn, and its main metabolite ...
Talleres participativos sobre riesgos en el uso de plaguicidas: Una construcción colectiva e interetaria. Informe Técnico IRET No. 40
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2020-10)
La zona del Caribe costarricense, en especial el cantón de Matina, se caracteriza por la cantidad de plantaciones agrícolas, dentro los cuales destacan los monocultivos de banano (Llaguno et al., 2014). Este desarrollo se ...
Derechos y obligaciones laborales
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2020-01-01)
El brochure contiene información del Reglamento sobre Disposiciones para Personas Ocupacionalmente Expuestas a Plaguicidas N° 38371-S-MTSS, Reglamento de salud ocupacional en el manejo y uso de agroquímicos Decreto 41931-MTSS ...
SUPPRESSION OF THE ROOT-KNOT NEMATODE (MELOIDOGYNE SP.) WITH CHEMICAL-ORGANIC PRODUCTS IN ONION CROP.
(50TH ANNUAL MEETING OF NEMATOLOGIST OF TROPICAL AMERICA (ONTA 2018), 2018-08)
The management of root–knot nematodes is a complex process in any farming system of susceptible plants, since most of the products not fumigants do not have current registration for vegetables. In the last five years, ...
Nematology in Central American countries, a general overview of the present situation
(50TH ANNUAL MEETING OF NEMATOLOGIST OF TROPICAL AMERICA (ONTA 2018), 2018-08)
Pesticide use in Central American agriculture has been promoted as an important tool for development since decades, despite in many cases being a hazardous technology for human health and the environment. At the same time ...
Euphorbia peplus L. (Euphorbiaceae) y Phalaris aquatica L. (Poaceae) ARVENSES DE RECIEN INTRODUCCION EN CAMPOS DE HORTALIZAS DE LA ZONA DE ZARCERO, ALAJUELA, COSTA RICA
(Malezas 2018: II Congreso Argentino de Malezas (ASACIM), 2018)
Las plantas introducidas, foráneas o exóticas, se han convertido en un componente importante de la vegetación de casi todos los países del mundo; pueden provocar desequilibrios ecológicos como cambios en la composición de ...
Aerial application of mancozeb and urinary ethylene thiourea (ETU) concentrations among pregnant women in Costa Rica: the Infants' Environmental Health Study (ISA).
(Research: Children´s health, 2014-12)
Background: Mancozeb and its main metabolite ethylene thiourea (ETU) may alter thyroid
function; thyroid hormones are essential for fetal brain development. In Costa Rica, mancozeb is
aerially sprayed at large-scale ...
Pesticide Exposure and Respiratory Health of Indigenous Women in Costa Rica
(Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and American Journal of EpidemiologyJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2009-02-18)
A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2007 to evaluate the relation between pesticide exposure and respiratory health in a population of indigenous women in Costa Rica. Exposed women (n ¼ 69) all worked at plantain
p ...
Prevalence and Clinical Profi le of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection among Farmworkers, California, USA, June–November 2020
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021-05)
During the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
pandemic, farmworkers in the United States are consid ered essential personnel and continue in-person work.
We conducted prospective surveillance for severe acut ...