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In situ toxicity and ecological risk assessment of agro-pesticide runoff in the Madre de Dios River in Costa Rica
(SpringerEuCheMS Division of Chemistry and the Environment, 2016-10-18)
The River Madre de Dios (RMD) and its lagoon is a biodiversity rich watershed formed by a system of streams, rivers, channels, and a coastal lagoon communicating with the Caribbean Sea. This basin sustains a large area of ...
Ecotoxicological characterization of a tropical soil after diazinon spraying
(Springer, 2012-07-04)
The impact of diazinon spraying in an agricultural tropical soil through the evaluation of both the habitat and retention functions of the soil system was never reported. To fill this gap, five times the recommended dose ...
Maternal residential pesticide use and risk of childhoodleukemia in Costa Rica
(Wiley-Liss Inc., 2018-04-15)
Evidence suggests that early-life exposure to pesticides inside the home may be associated with childhood leukemia, howeverdata from Latin American countries are limited. We examined whether self-reported maternal residential ...
The effect of the insecticide diazinon on the osmoregulation and the avoidance response of the white leg shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) is salinity dependent
(Elsevier, 2020-12-15)
Diazinon is one of the insecticides that represent a high risk for Costa Rican estuarine environments due to its
widespread use in pineapple plantations. In estuaries, organisms are frequently submitted to stress caused ...
Workplace Carcinogen and Pesticide Exposures in Costa Rica
(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 ...