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Chlordecone: a well-known endocrine disruptor affecting the French West Indies
Chlordecone is an organochlorine insecticide that was used extensively in the French West Indies from 1973 to 1993 to control the banana weevil. Due to persistent soil contamination and...
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Assessment of Occupational Exposure Among the Working Population in France: Tools and Methods
Assessing occupational exposures and their trends over time is a critical component of any public health system for monitoring occupational risks. It involves examining not the...
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Occupational exposure of winegrowers to arsenic-based pesticides: prevalence of exposure between 1979 and 2000
Introduction: Arsenic-based pesticides, the only chemical solution used in viticulture until 2001 to control esca, are classified as definite carcinogens. Estimates of the number of...
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Occupational exposure to respiratory carcinogens among employees in 2010
Introduction: Respiratory cancers are the most common occupational cancers, but very little data is available to quantify occupational exposure to respiratory carcinogens. The objective...
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Feasibility study on reconstituting the cohort of agricultural workers exposed to chlordecone in Martinique and Guadeloupe. National Chlordecone Plans 1 and 2
Chlordecone is an organochlorine pesticide that was used between 1973 and 1993 in the French West Indies to control the banana weevil. Persistent in the environment, it is a possible...
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Technical details on the compilation of the Acta plant health indexes
The purpose of this guide is to present the technical and methodological data that led to the compilation of information from the Acta phytosanitary indexes. These annual publications,...
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Multiple occupational exposures to carcinogens among employees in 2010
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Estimating the proportion of cancers attributable to specific occupational exposures in France: Using the job-exposure matrices developed as part of the Matgéné program
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Exposure of Pregnant Women to Environmental Pollutants in France in 2011. Perinatal Component of the National Biomonitoring Program Conducted Within the ELFE Cohort - Volume 1: Organic Pollutants
The national biomonitoring program, implemented by Santé publique France (formerly the Institut de veille sanitaire), includes a perinatal component based on a subsample of pregnant...
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Matphyto: From Crop-Exposure Matrices to Plant Protection Products. Principles and Methodology
Pesticides have been used in agriculture for decades and comprise a large number of active ingredients (1,000) distributed across numerous commercial formulations (10,000). The...