title: [Chemical risk in farming].
abstract: The most important chemical risks in agriculture are plant protection products. Exposure evaluation in agriculture is not an easy task and cannot be carried out with the tools and methodologies of industrial exposures. However, toxicological studies on plant protection products, that are compulsory, provide a lot of useful information for actual risk assessment. Exposure evaluation can be carried out on the basis of exposure models and on semiquantitative measures based on the observation of the activity as it is carried our by the farmer. It is therefore possible to develop risk profiles that can guide exposure evaluation and health surveillance. Concentrated animal feeding operations are associated with several chemical risks including disinfectants, antibiotics, and gases such as ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, in addition to organic dusts and endotoxins.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Cliniche, Università degli Studi di Milano, e Centro Internazionale per gli Antiparassitari e la Prevenzione Sanitaria (ICPS), Azienda Ospedaliera Luigi Sacco, Milano, Italy. angelo.moretto@unimi.it
authors.forename: Angelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moretto
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D016573:Agrochemicals / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D018570:Risk Assessment
chemical_list: D016573:Agrochemicals