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Prevalence of Parkinson's disease among farmers and in the general population according to the agricultural characteristics of French departments
Objectives: The role of occupational exposure to pesticides in Parkinson’s disease (PD) has been well documented, but no study has assessed the excess risk of PD among the French...
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Assessment of Occupational Exposure Among the Working Population in France: Tools and Methods
Assessing occupational exposures and their trends over time is a critical component of any public health system for monitoring occupational risks. It involves examining not the...
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Occupational exposure of winegrowers to arsenic-based pesticides: prevalence of exposure between 1979 and 2000
Introduction: Arsenic-based pesticides, the only chemical solution used in viticulture until 2001 to control esca, are classified as definite carcinogens. Estimates of the number of...
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Occupational exposure to respiratory carcinogens among employees in 2010
Introduction: Respiratory cancers are the most common occupational cancers, but very little data is available to quantify occupational exposure to respiratory carcinogens. The objective...
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Exposure to alphachloralose (AC)-based rodenticides: a retrospective study of cases reported to French poison control centers (CAPTV) from 1999 to 2012
Objective: ANSES requested the Toxicovigilance Coordination Committee to describe human exposure to AC using cases collected by the CAPTV network in mainland France and in the overseas...
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Multiple occupational exposures to carcinogens among employees in 2010
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Estimating the proportion of cancers attributable to specific occupational exposures in France: Using the job-exposure matrices developed as part of the Matgéné program
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Chlordecone: a well-known endocrine disruptor affecting the French West Indies
Chlordecone is an organochlorine insecticide that was used extensively in the French West Indies from 1973 to 1993 to control the banana weevil. Due to persistent soil contamination and...
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Survey of Farming Practices and Food Consumption in Community Gardens in the Belfort Metropolitan Area (Franche-Comté)
The consumption of fruits and vegetables grown in private gardens is an important factor in assessing health risks associated with contaminated sites and soils. However, little is known...
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Characteristics and trends of clinical strains of enterococci resistant to vancomycin and/or linezolid isolated in France, 2006–2022
Introduction – Numerous outbreaks involving vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) have been reported in France and around the world. In addition, the emergence of linezolid-resistant...
