PMID: 2483645May 1, 1989Paper

[Current aspects of the problem caused by insecticide residues].

Annali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunità
C Bigazzi GrassoE Mariottini

Abstract

1. In Italy in recent years the use of pesticides in agriculture has increased considerably, especially with respect to organophosphate compounds. On the other hand, organochlorine insecticides now are less employed, because since 1970 laws have been introduced by which the use of these chemicals has been limited. Among the organochlorinated insecticides now employed, we find above all lindane, endosulfan and, in floriculture, DDT. The problem with the environmental diffusion and accumulation of organochlorine pesticides therefore is always related to the human long-term pathology, not yet definitively understood. Since the sixties we have given attention to the problems in the use of pesticides, with regard to organochlorine, we have been investigating either environmental pollution (surface and subsoil water, food, etc.) or human exposure to pesticide residues, whether direct or indirect. In 1968 we investigated, in an area of Tuscany given over to floriculture, the chlorinated insecticides blood levels in 46 exposed subjects (floriculturists) and in a control-group (50 subjects) who had only indirect exposure. We found high values in those of all kinds of the tested insecticides (lindane, aldrin, heptachlor epoxide, DDT) wit...Continue Reading

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