Observational studyJournal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology2019
Urinary pesticide concentrations in French adults with low and high organic food consumption: results from the general population-based NutriNet-Santé.
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- A Systematic Review of Organic Versus Conventional Food Consumption: Is There a Measurable Benefit on Human Health?Nutrients · 2019Pooled it
- Sustainability dimensions of diets with varying levels of food biodiversity in the NutriNet-Santé study.Public health nutrition · 2026Article
- Adverse Effects of Pesticides on the Ovary: Evidence from Epidemiological and Toxicological Studies.Environment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Review
- The association between prenatal pyrethroids exposure and children's health - current research.International journal of occupational medicine and environmental health · 2024Review
- Organic Food in Athletes Diet-Narrative Review of Alternative Products in Sports Nutrition.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Co-detection of azoxystrobin and thiabendazole fungicides in mold and mildew resistant wallboards and in children.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Environmental pressures and pesticide exposure associated with an increase in the share of plant-based foods in the diet.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Prospective association between dietary pesticide exposure profiles and type 2 diabetes risk in the NutriNet-Santé cohort.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2022Observational
- Quantifiable urine glyphosate levels detected in 99% of the French population, with higher values in men, in younger people, and in farmers.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Article
- Reported organic food consumption and metabolic syndrome in older adults: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses.European journal of nutrition · 2022Article
- How much pesticide residue is in your diet? It depends on what you eat-and how it's grown.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2022Article
- Key Findings of the French BioNutriNet Project on Organic Food-Based Diets: Description, Determinants, and Relationships to Health and the Environment.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Article
- Metabolomic and proteomic characterization of sng and pain phenotypes in fibromyalgia.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2022Article
- Intake of fruits and vegetables according to pesticide residue status in relation to all-cause and disease-specific mortality: Results from three prospective cohort studies.Environment international · 2022Article
- Intake of fruits and vegetables by pesticide residue status in relation to cancer risk.Environment international · 2021Article
- Household insecticide use and urinary 3-phenoxybenzoic acid levels in an elder population: a repeated measures data.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2021Article
- Estimated dietary pesticide exposure from plant-based foods using NMF-derived profiles in a large sample of French adults.European journal of nutrition · 2021Article
- Review
- Prospective association between organic food consumption and the risk of type 2 diabetes: findings from the NutriNet-Santé cohort study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Article
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Abstract
An organic diet may reduce dietary exposure to pesticides but findings based on observational data are scant. We aimed to compare urinary pesticide concentrations between "organic" and "conventional" consumers from the NutriNet-Santé study. Organic food consumption was determined using a self-reported food frequency questionnaire. Individuals with a proportion of organic food in the whole diet (in g/d) below 10% were defined as low organic food consumers and those whose proportion was above 50% as high organic food consumers. A propensity score matching procedure was then used to obtain two similar subsets of 150 participants, differing mostly by the organic valence of their diet. Urinary pesticide and metabolite concentrations (organophosphorus, pyrethroid, and azole compounds) were determined by UPLC-MS/MS, standardized with respect to creatinine. The molar sums of total diethylphosphates, dimethylphosphates, and dialkylphosphates were also computed. Differences in distributions across groups were tested using Wilcoxon signed-rank test for matched data. Mean age was 58.5 years and 70% of participants were women. Significantly lower urinary levels of diethylthiophosphate, dimethylthiophosphate, dialkylphosphates, and free 3-phenoxybenzoic acid were observed among organic consumers compared to conventional consumers. Our findings confirm that exposure to certain organophosphate and pyrethroïd pesticides in adults may be lowered by switching from conventional to organic foods. This is particularly of high interest among conventional fruit and vegetable consumers, as their exposure may be the highest.
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