Comprehensive dietary risk assessment of pesticides comprised in Argentinean legislation

MAGGIONI, D.; SIGNORINI, M.L.; REPETTI, M.R.; MICHLING, N.; GARCÍA, S.R,; BELDOMÉNICO, H.R

San Francisco

Congreso; 13TH IUPAC INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PESTICIDE CHEMISTRY; 2014

Crop, Environment, and Public Health Protection

Having in mind the extraordinary grow and modernization of agricultural production in Argentina, it became of first importance the improvement of risk assessment tasks especially to address the impact of the use of pesticides in health and environment. This work presents a comprehensive chronic dietary risk assessment of the pesticides included in current active regulations in Argentina. TMDI´s for more than 300 a.i., following WHO/FAO guidelines, were evaluated. Food consumption data was based on the National Nutrition and Health Survey (2007), comprising a stratification of the population surveyed in four clusters. The proportion of ADI (% ADI) was the main parameter analyzed by deterministic and Monte Carlo stochastic statistical approaches. A first conservative list of about 40 different aptitude and chemical type critical pesticides could be established, constituting not previously available information, very useful to improve pesticides registration, control systems and the involved legislation in Argentina.