2024
Quantitative measures of recent and lifetime agricultural pesticide use are associated with increased pesticide concentrations in house dust
Xie S, Hofmann J, Sampson J, Josse P, Madrigal J, Chang V, Deziel N, Andreotti G, Keil A, Ward M, Beane Freeman L, Friesen M. Quantitative measures of recent and lifetime agricultural pesticide use are associated with increased pesticide concentrations in house dust. Environment International 2024, 193: 109123. PMID: 39541787, DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2024.109123.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAgricultural pesticide usePesticide concentrationsAgricultural usePesticide useBanned pesticidesDust samplesElevated pesticide concentrationsBiomarkers of exposure and effectExposure and effectConcentrations of malathionVacuum dust samplesEvaluate temporal variabilityDust concentrationHeptachlor concentrationsP-DDEP′-DDDDieldrin concentrationsCyfluthrin concentrationsAgricultural pesticidesPesticidesPesticide analytesTemporal variabilityEstimate relative differencesIntraclass correlation coefficientHouse dust
2016
Comparison of industrial emissions and carpet dust concentrations of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans in a multi-center U.S. study
Deziel NC, Nuckols JR, Jones RR, Graubard BI, De Roos AJ, Pronk A, Gourley C, Colt JS, Ward MH. Comparison of industrial emissions and carpet dust concentrations of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans in a multi-center U.S. study. The Science Of The Total Environment 2016, 580: 1276-1286. PMID: 28017415, PMCID: PMC5330683, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.090.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMunicipal solid waste incineratorSolid waste incineratorMedical waste incineratorWaste incineratorEmission indexAverage emission indexSewage sludge incineratorsPCDD/F emissionsNon-hazardous wasteElectricity generating plantsPCDD/F congenersDust concentrationPCDD/F emission sourcesCement kilnsSludge incineratorsToxic PCDD/F congenersGenerating plantsEmission sourcesHazardous waste incineratorIncineratorF emissionsLocal meteorological dataNearby emission sourcesTerrain characteristicsSystem readings