Hair analysis for the biomonitoring of pesticide exposure: comparison with blood and urine in a rat model.

ABSTRACT: Urine and plasma have been used to date for the biomonitoring of exposure to pollutants and are still the preferred fluids for this purpose; however, these fluids mainly provide information on the short term and may present a high level of variability regarding pesticide concentrations, especially for nonpersistent compounds. Hair analysis may provide information about chronic exposure that is averaged over several months; therefore, this method has been proposed as an alternative to solely relying on these fluids. Although the possibility of detecting pesticides in hair has been demonstrated over the past few years, the unknown linkage between exposure and pesticides concentration in hair has limited the recognition of this matrix as a relevant tool for assessing human exposure. Based on

SUBMITTER: Appenzeller BMR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5515982 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature