التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Impacts of Agricultural Pesticide Contamination: An Integrated Risk Assessment of Rural Communities of Eswatini. |
| المؤلفون: |
Msibi, Sithembiso Sifiso, Su, Lihchyun Joseph, Chen, Chung-Yu, Chang, Cheng-Ping, Chen, Chiou-Jong, Wu, Kuen-Yuh, Chiang, Su-Yin |
| المصدر: |
Toxics; Sep2023, Vol. 11 Issue 9, p770, 16p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ATRAZINE, ECOLOGICAL risk assessment, PESTICIDES, LIQUID chromatography-mass spectrometry, AGRICULTURE, ENVIRONMENTAL health, PESTICIDE residues in food, RISK assessment |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
AFRICA |
| مستخلص: |
Marked reductions in mean annual rainfall associated with climate change in Eswatini in Southern Africa have encouraged the recycling of irrigation water and the increased use of pesticides in agricultural production, raising concerns about potential ecological and health risks due to long-term exposure to pesticide residues in soil and irrigation water. This probabilistic integrated risk assessment used liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry to analyze the concentrations of four commonly used agricultural pesticides (ametryn, atrazine, pendimethalin, and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D)) in irrigation water and topsoil samples from farmlands in Eswatini to assess potential ecological and health risks due to exposure. The concentrations of these pesticides ranged from undetectable to 0.104 µg/L in irrigation water and from undetectable to 2.70 µg/g in soil. The probabilistic multi-pathway and multi-route risk assessments conducted revealed hazard indices exceeding 1.0 for all age groups for ametryn and atrazine, suggesting that the daily consumption of recycled irrigation water and produce from the fields in this area may pose considerable health risks. The indices pertaining to ecological risks had values less than 0.1. Adaptation measures are recommended to efficiently manage pesticide use in agriculture, and further research will ensure that agriculture can adapt to climate change and that the general public and ecosystem are protected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |
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