Pesticides, particularly glyphosate (GPS) and its metabolite aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), are a global concern due to their potential to contaminate both surface and underground waters, leading to biodiversity and health impacts. This work reviews the fate of GPS in Mediterranean agrosystems and compares it to available information in Tunisia...
Published in Se pu = Chinese journal of chromatography
Pesticide residues may be present in olive oil because pesticides are applied to olive trees during their cultivation and growth for pest prevention and some of these pesticides are not easily degraded. Studies on pesticide residues in olive oil have mainly focused on the detection of single types of pesticide residues, and reports on the simultane...
Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
Published in Frontiers in Public Health
Published in Food additives & contaminants. Part A, Chemistry, analysis, control, exposure & risk assessment
Durum wheat cultivars with varying abilities to accumulate cadmium were grown and treated in the field with a glyphosate-containing herbicide at different stages of maturity to produce grain with higher and lower concentrations of cadmium (0.066-0.214 mg/kg) and glyphosate (0.474-0.874 mg/kg). The grain was milled, and fractions were analysed for c...
Published in Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
This study assessed the effect of traditional leafy vegetables (TLVs) on the level of food security in the rural area of Dlangezwa, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. A total of 100 respondents were selected using a simple random sampling method. The Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) was used to measure the food security st...
Published in Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
Effects of widescale locust control with insecticides on non-target edible insects have been scarcely assessed. This study was carried out to investigate the effect of spraying desert locust with cypermethrin and chlorpyrifos on: (1) termite mound activity; (2) safety of edible termites from contamination with pesticide residues; and (3) nutritiona...
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
It is essential to estimate the indoor pesticides/insecticides exposure risk since reports show that 80% of human exposure to pesticides occurs indoors. As one of the three major contamination sources, surface collected pesticides contributed significantly to this risk. Here, a highly sensitive liquid freestanding membrane (FSM) SERS method based o...
Introduction: “What people worry about, and what makes them sick and kills them, are not the same” is maxim for risk communication experts. In Burkina Faso, pesticides are used by vegetable producers to improve productivity. However, consumer concern over pesticide use is high. Of course, if over-used pesticides could have serious health consequenc...
Published in ACS applied materials & interfaces
Two new carbazole-based monomers 6,6'-(9-n-butyl-9H-carbazole-3,6-diyl)bis(1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine) and 6,6'-(9H-carbazole-3,6-diyl)bis(1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine) are synthesized and employed to polymerize with formamide and N,N-dimethylformamide, respectively, to afford thee fluorescent micro-/mesoporous polyaminals with physicochemical microe...
