ReviewEnvironmental health perspectives2015
A review of nonoccupational pathways for pesticide exposure in women living in agricultural areas.
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63 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 141 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Systematic Literature Review of the Take-Home Route of Pesticide Exposure via Biomonitoring and Environmental Monitoring.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
- Urinary Glyphosate Concentrations among Pregnant Participants in a Randomized, Crossover Trial of Organic and Conventional Diets.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Trial
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- Community Health Impacts of Pesticide Exposure: Pathways, Vulnerable Populations, and Public Health Responses.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Review
- Determinants of residential pesticide contamination in vineyard regions: a structural equation modeling approach.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Article
- Recruitment process for studying occupational and environmental chemical exposures in a birth cohort study in Ecuador: challenges dealing with a stratified sample.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- Design of a user-centered intelligent shoe cabinet for smart home hygiene using Kano-AHP-TRIZ.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Updating our quantification of non-occupational pesticide exposure in agricultural settings: A revised algorithm for the Agricultural Health Study.Environmental advances · 2026Article
- Environmental co-exposure to organophosphate and pyrethroid pesticides and mental health status in rural communities near an industrial pig farming facility.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Prenatal exposure to agricultural pesticide applications and gestational diabetes mellitus in the Az-PEARS population-based study (2014-2020).Environment international · 2026Article
- Relationships of residential distance to greenhouse floriculture and organophosphate, pyrethroid, and neonicotinoid urinary metabolite concentration in Ecuadorian Adolescents.International journal of health geographics · 2025Article
- A Call for Pediatric Clinicians to Address Environmental Health Concerns in Rural Settings.Pediatric clinics of North America · 2025Review
- Preconception and first trimester exposure to pesticides and associations with stillbirth.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Implications of petrochemical exposure and epigenetic alterations on human health.Frontiers in toxicology · 2025Review
- Quantifying residents' exposure to agricultural pesticides using new geospatial approaches.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Quantitative measures of recent and lifetime agricultural pesticide use are associated with increased pesticide concentrations in house dust.Environment international · 2024Article
- Environmental Health Assessment by Local Environmental Justice Experts for Evidence-based Decision-making in an Agricultural Community of Northern California.Community science · 2024Article
- Genetic variation and pesticide exposure influence blood DNA methylation signatures in females with early-stage Parkinson's disease.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2024Article
- Agricultural exposures and DNA damage in PBMC of female farmers measured using the alkaline comet assay.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundWomen living in agricultural areas may experience high pesticide exposures compared with women in urban or suburban areas because of their proximity to farm activities.
objectiveOur objective was to review the evidence in the published literature for the contribution of nonoccupational pathways of pesticide exposure in women living in North American agricultural areas.
methodsWe evaluated the following nonoccupational exposure pathways: paraoccupational (i.e., take-home or bystander exposure), agricultural drift, residential pesticide use, and dietary ingestion. We also evaluated the role of hygiene factors (e.g., house cleaning, shoe removal).
resultsAmong 35 publications identified (published 1995-2013), several reported significant or suggestive (p < 0.1) associations between paraoccupational (n = 19) and agricultural drift (n = 10) pathways and pesticide dust or biomarker levels, and 3 observed that residential use was associated with pesticide concentrations in dust. The 4 studies related to ingestion reported low detection rates of most pesticides in water; additional studies are needed to draw conclusions about the importance of this pathway. Hygiene factors were not consistently linked to exposure among the 18 relevant publications identified.
conclusionsEvidence supported the importance of paraoccupational, drift, and residential use pathways. Disentangling exposure pathways was difficult because agricultural populations are concurrently exposed to pesticides via multiple pathways. Most evidence was based on measurements of pesticides in residential dust, which are applicable to any household member and are not specific to women. An improved understanding of nonoccupational pesticide exposure pathways in women living in agricultural areas is critical for studying health effects in women and for designing effective exposure-reduction strategies.
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