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    • What are the Main Sensor Methods for Quantifying Pesticides in Agricultural Activities? A Review 

      Zamora-Sequeira, Roy; Starbird-Perez, Ricardo; Rojas Carrillo, Oscar; VARGAS, SEILING (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019-07-23)
      In recent years, there has been an increase in pesticide use to improve crop production due to the growth of agricultural activities. Consequently, various pesticides have been present in the environment for an extended ...

    • Who is where in the Plastisphere, and why does it matter? 

      Arias, Maria de Jesus (Wiley Periodicals, 2020-04-24)
      To fully understand how plastic is affecting the ocean, we need to understand how marine life interacts directly with it. Besides their ecological relevance, microbes can affect the distribution, degradation and transfer ...

    • Work and health in Latin America: Results from the working conditions surveys of Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Central America and Uruguay 

      Merino-Salazar, Pamela; ARTAZCOZ, LUCIA; Cornelio, Cecilia; Itatí Iñiguez, María José; Rojas, Marianela; Martínez-Iñigo, David; Vives, Alejandra; Funcasta, Lorena; Benavides, Fernando G. (BMJ Journals, 2017-01-16)
      Objective To describe working and employment conditions, and health status between non-agricultural employees with a written contract from Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Central America and Uruguay. Methods We compared data ...

    • Workplace Carcinogen and Pesticide Exposures in Costa Rica 

      Partanen, Timo; Chaves, Jorge; Wesseling, Catharina; Chaverri, Fabio; Monge, Patricia; Ruepert, Clemens; Aragón, Aurora; Kogevinas, Manolis; Hogstedt, Christer; Kauppinen, Timo (Taylor & Francis, 2003)
      The CAREX data system converts national workforce volumes and proportions of workers exposed to workplace carcinogens into numbers of exposed in 55 industrial categories. CAREX was adapted for Costa Rica for 27 carcinogens ...