Occurrence of pesticide residues in indoor dust of farmworker households across Europe and Argentina

IRENE NAVARRO; ADRIAN DE LA TORRE; PALOMA SANZ; ISABEL BALBI; PAULA HARKES; LWANGA, ESPERANZAHUERTA; NORGAARD, TRINE; MATJAZ, GLAVAN; PASKOVI?, IGOR; MARIJA POLI´C PASKOVI´C ; NELSON ABRANTES; ISABEL CAMPOS; ALCON, FRANCISCO; JOSEFINA CONTRERAS; ALAOUI, ABDALLAH; HOFMAN, JAKUB; ANNE VESTED; MATILDE BUREAU; VIRGINIA APARICIO; DANIELE MANDRIOLI; DARIA SGARGI; HANS MOL; VIOLETTE GEISSEN; VERA SILVA; MARIA ANGELES MARTINEZ

Science of the Total Environment

Elsevier B.V.

Año: 2023 vol. 905

Pesticides are widely used as plant protection products (PPPs) in farming systems to preserve crops against pests, weeds, and fungal diseases. Indoor dust can act as a chemical repository revealing occurrence of pesticides in the indoor environment at the time of sampling and the (recent) past. This in turn provides information on the exposure of humans to pesticides in their homes. In the present study, part of the Horizon 2020 funded SPRINT project, the presence of 198 pesticide residues was assessed in 128 indoor dust samples from both conventional and organic farmworker households across Europe, and in Argentina. Mixtures of pesticide residues were found in all dust samples (25–121, min-max; 75, median). Concentrations varied in a wide range (