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Effect of organic diet intervention on pesticide exposures in young children living in low-income urban and agricultural communities [1]

Recent organic diet intervention studies suggest that diet is a significant source of pesticide exposure in young children. These studies have focused on children living in suburban communities. The objective of the study was to determine whether consuming an organic diet reduced urinary pesticide metabolite concentrations in 40 Mexican-American children, 3-6 years, living in California urban and agricultural communities.

Publication Date: 
10/04/2015
Asa Bradman [2], Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá [3], Rosemary Castorina & et al [4]
Environmental Health Perspectives [5]
1-33
Tags:
Organic Foods [6], Child Health [7], California [8], Food Contamination [9], Pesticide Use [10], Synthetic Pyrethroids [11], Organophosphates [12], United States Of America (US) [13], Chlorpyriphos [14], Diazinon [15], Agriculture [16]
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