Pesticides
This is the most widely used category of pesticides.
What are herbicides?
Many acute pesticide poisonings affect these two divisions of the nervous system.
What are the central and peripheral nervous systems?
This acronym describes the highest tested exposure level at which no effect is observed.
What is NOAEL?
These pesticides are known for environmental persistence and bioaccumulation.
What are organochlorine pesticides?
The article estimates that more than this number of people in developing countries experience single short-term pesticide exposures or poisonings.
What is 3 million?
WHO’s modeled guideline for certain carcinogenic pesticides corresponds to approximately one additional case per this many people.
What is 100,000?
Name the two major water sources that pesticides can enter through.
What are surface water and groundwater?
Give one reason chronic health effects of pesticide exposure may be underestimated.
What are symptoms that may be attributed to other causes/ ong term effects and/or difficult to link?
People can be exposed to pesticides through drinking water, but the article emphasizes another major source when calculating how much exposure to allocate to water.
What is food?