A newly published study among about 70000 French adult volunteers, examined the association between consumption frequency of organic foods, assessed through a score evaluating the consumption frequency of organic food categories, and cancer risk in the ongoing, large-scale French NutriNet-Santé cohort. After adjustment for confounders (main model), high organic food scores were linearly and negatively associated with 

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During the 30th SANA international exhibition of organic and natural products, the results of the survey of Italian food agriculture, promoted by BolognaFiere with the support of FederBio and Assobio and curated by Nomisma were presented. The survey was based on a sample group of 200 retail points for the section dedicated to the retail 

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A new study published in the Nature Communications journal investigated the association of residential agricultural pesticide exposure during gestation, by trimester, and by toxicity with birth weight, gestational length, or birth abnormalities using individual birth and demographic characteristics for over 500 000 births during 1997–2011, in the agriculturally dominated area of San Joaquin Valley in 

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Organophosphate insecticides (OPs) are used for pest management not only in agriculture but also in residential settings and the general population is exposed to OPs mainly through the diet. A number of studies have shown association of OPs with developmental neurotoxicity since prenatal exposures to OPs have been found to be associated with deficits in 

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Τις συσχετίσεις μεταξύ της προγεννητικής και της παιδικής έκθεσης σε πυρεθροειδή εντομοκτόνα και τη συμπεριφορά των παιδιών αξιολόγησαν στην κοορτή μητέρας-παιδιού PELAGIE  οι Viel et al., 2017. Πέντε μεταβολίτες πυρεθροειδών (3-ΡΒΑ, 4-F-3-PBA, cis-DCCA και trans-DCCA και cis-DBCA) μετρήθηκαν σε δείγματα ούρων από μητέρες και παιδιά και η συμπεριφορά των παιδιών αξιολογήθηκε με τη χρήση του 

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