ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Indicators of Genotoxicity in Farmers and Laborers of Ecological and Conventional Banana Plantations in Ecuador.
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- In Vitro Study of the Effects of Pesticide Mixtures Used in Maize Cultivation in Ecuador.Toxics · 2025Article
- Aerial Spraying and Its Impacts on Human Health in Banana-Growing Areas of Ecuador.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Mapping Potential Population-Level Pesticide Exposures in Ecuador Using a Modular and Scalable Geospatial Strategy.GeoHealth · 2023Article
- Effect of Pesticide Exposure over DNA Damage in Farmers from Los Reyes, Michoacan in Mexico.Toxics · 2023Article
- Genotoxicity and Reproductive Risk in Workers Exposed to Pesticides in Rural Areas of Curicó, Chile: A Pilot Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Health Effects of Pesticide Exposure in Latin American and the Caribbean Populations: A Scoping Review.Environmental health perspectives · 2022Article
- The effect of low doses of chlorpyrifos on blood and bone marrow cells in Wistar rats.Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju · 2022Article
- Health Symptoms Related to Pesticide Use in Farmers and Laborers of Ecological and Conventional Banana Plantations in Ecuador.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Banana farming represents an important segment of agricultural production in Ecuador. The health of farmworkers might be compromised by the extensive use of pesticides in plantations applied under poorly regulated conditions. Due to an increased awareness of pesticide-related problems for nature, as well as for worker and consumer health, ecological farming has been established in some plantations of Ecuador. We set out to investigate the occupational health of workers in both conventional and ecological farming. Nuclear anomalies in buccal epithelial cells were used as short-term indicators for genotoxicity and a potentially increased cancer risk in the two groups of farmworkers. By application of the Buccal Micronucleus Cytome Assay (BMCA), we found the frequency of micronuclei in conventional pesticide using farmworkers significantly increased by 2.6-fold, and other nuclear anomalies significantly increased by 24% to 80% (except pyknosis with a non-significant increase of 11%) compared to the farmworkers on ecological plantations. These results demonstrate that ecological farming may provide an alternative to extensive pesticide use with significantly reduced indicators of cancer risk. In conventional farming, improvements in education and instruction regarding the safe handling of pesticides and protective equipment, as well as regulatory measures, are urgently needed.
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