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ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

A Critical Review of the Status of Pesticide Exposure Management in Malawi.

Ishmael Kosamu, Chikumbusko Kaonga, Wells Utembe

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Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. EndophyticFrontiers in microbiology · 2023
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  4. Review
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  6. Biological Control of a Phytosanitary Pest (International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ishmael KosamuDepartment of Physics and Biochemical Sciences, The Polytechnic, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi.
Chikumbusko KaongaDepartment of Physics and Biochemical Sciences, The Polytechnic, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi.
Wells UtembeToxicology and Biochemistry Department, National Institute for Occupational Health, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-6547-7692
University of Malawi · MWNational Institute for Occupational Health · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pesticides pose a significant risk to humans and the environment. This paper analyzes the measures used to manage pesticides in Malawi. Malawi's regulatory authority of pesticides, the Pesticides Control Board (PCB), faces a number of challenges including lack of facilities for analyzing pesticides and inadequate personnel to conduct risk assessment of pesticides. The PCB needs to provide access to information and opportunities among the public to make contributions regarding requirements, processes and policies for assessing pesticide risk and efficacy. There is also a need to enhance the capacity of PCB to assess pesticide poisoning in workers, monitor pesticide residues in food and environmental contamination, as well as to control the illegal importation and sale of pesticides. Just like in other countries such as South Africa, India and Sri Lanka, Malawi urgently needs to implement measures that can restrict the importation, production, sale and use of very toxic pesticides. Malawi also needs to develop measures for the effective management of pesticide waste containers as well as obsolete pesticides, where potential solutions include reducing the purchase of (unneeded) pesticides, treatment of obsolete pesticides in high-temperature cement kilns, as well as requesting pesticide dealers to adopt life-cycle management of their products.

Indexed as

Environmental ExposurePesticidesCommerceEnvironmental MonitoringHumansMalawiPesticidescontaminationfood residuesobsolete pesticidespesticidepoisoning

Identifiers

PMID32942751
PMCPMC7557847
OpenAlexW3086182241

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Registered trials

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