Residential surface soil guidance applied worldwide to the pesticides added to the Stockholm Convention in 2009 and 2011

Jennings, Aaron A.; Li, Zijian

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.06.020

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“…Since most data sets for pesticide standard values resemble a log-transformed random distribution [ 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 ], the cumulative distribution function was applied to plot the pesticide standard values and to compare it with the cumulative distribution of a log-normal random variable with identical statistics, arithmetic, mean, and standard deviations. The cumulative distribution function was used to illustrate how worldwide pesticide standard values dispersed over the span of values and the ranking of the standard values for each jurisdiction.…”

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Worldwide Regulations of Standard Values of Pesticides for Human Health Risk Control: A Review

Jennings

2017

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Abstract:The impact of pesticide residues on human health is a worldwide problem, as human exposure to pesticides can occur through ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact. Regulatory jurisdictions have promulgated the standard values for pesticides in residential soil, air, drinking water, and agricultural commodity for years. Until now, more than 19,400 pesticide soil regulatory guidance values (RGVs) and 5400 pesticide drinking water maximum concentration levels (MCLs) have been regulated by 54 and 102 nations, respectively. Over 90 nations have provided pesticide agricultural commodity maximum residue limits (MRLs) for at least one of the 12 most commonly consumed agricultural foods. A total of 22 pesticides have been regulated with more than 100 soil RGVs, and 25 pesticides have more than 100 drinking water MCLs. This research indicates that those RGVs and MCLs for an individual pesticide could vary over seven (DDT drinking water MCLs), eight (Lindane soil RGVs), or even nine (Dieldrin soil RGVs) orders of magnitude. Human health risk uncertainty bounds and the implied total exposure mass burden model were applied to analyze the most commonly regulated and used pesticides for human health risk control. For the top 27 commonly regulated pesticides in soil, there are at least 300 RGVs (8% of the total) that are above all of the computed upper bounds for human health risk uncertainty. For the top 29 most-commonly regulated pesticides in drinking water, at least 172 drinking water MCLs (5% of the total) exceed the computed upper bounds for human health risk uncertainty; while for the 14 most widely used pesticides, there are at least 310 computed implied dose limits (28.0% of the total) that are above the acceptable daily intake values. The results show that some worldwide standard values were not derived conservatively enough to avoid human health risk by the pesticides, and that some values were not computed comprehensively by considering all major human exposure pathways.

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Worldwide Regulations of Standard Values of Pesticides for Human Health Risk Control: A Review

Jennings

2017

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“…Previous studies show that median and geometric mean are better measures of PSVs central tendency [4][5][6]. The weighted average medians for soil and drinking water IDLs are 1.09 E-03 and 2.21 E-03 mg/kg-day respectively, and that for food IDLs is 1.17 E-02 mg/kgday.…”

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“…Developing PSVs regulations is a systematic and comprehensive work by considering all major exposures and applying the human health risk model. Previous studies [4][5][6] show that worldwide pesticide soil Regulatory Guidance Values (RGVs) are not harmonized, which could vary in five, six, or even seven orders of magnitude. Some RGVs seem too large to prevent human health impact and others are too small to achieve the remediation goal technically.…”

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Is There any Relationship between Worldwide Pesticide Standard Values in Residential Soil, Drinking Water, and Agricultural Commodity Exposures?

Li¹

2017

J Toxicol Risk Assess

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Human could exposure to pesticides via various exposure pathways. Worldwide jurisdictions are making efforts to manage human health risk by regulating pesticide standards in residential soil, drinking water, and agricultural commodity. An assumption is made that if the pesticide standards were derived by human health risk model with essential toxic data, a relationship may exist between the standard values from different exposures. Implied Dose Limit (IDL) was introduced in this research to convert pesticide standards in different exposure pathways to pesticide exposure mass loading. Comparing all the IDLs of pesticides, it illustrates that pesticide standards in soil are probably more conservative than those in drinking water and food for most largely used pesticides worldwide. Result also shows that there is no significant relationship between any two IDLs computed from these exposure pathways, suggesting that worldwide jurisdictions derived the pesticide standards independently without considering the impacts of other major exposures.

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“…However, these intermediates remain difficult to break down due to the presence of chlorine [13]. The organochloride gamma hexachloro-cyclohexane, (lindane) was once broadly used and was banned by most nations in 2009 due to toxic health effects and possible carcinogenicity [18]. As of 2016, some longlived organochlorides, including DDT, remain in use in a number of countries [16].…”

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Bioelectrochemical and Conventional Bioremediation of Environmental Pollutants

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2016

J Microb Biochem Technol

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One of the first widely used, synthetically-produced pesticides was the organochloride class agent DDT. From the Second World War until its ban in the early 1970's, DDT was deployed on a vast scale for control of insects and insect-borne diseases and as a highly effective agricultural pesticide [11]. For example, over a half million pounds of DDT was applied to salt marshes in Cape May County, New Jersey

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Residential surface soil guidance applied worldwide to the pesticides added to the Stockholm Convention in 2009 and 2011

Cited by 44 publications

References 15 publications

Worldwide Regulations of Standard Values of Pesticides for Human Health Risk Control: A Review

Worldwide Regulations of Standard Values of Pesticides for Human Health Risk Control: A Review

Is There any Relationship between Worldwide Pesticide Standard Values in Residential Soil, Drinking Water, and Agricultural Commodity Exposures?

Bioelectrochemical and Conventional Bioremediation of Environmental Pollutants

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