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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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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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Estimating the proportion of cancers attributable to specific occupational exposures in France. Use of job-exposure matrices developed as part of the Matgéné program
Occupational diseases, most of which are nonspecific, represent a significant burden in France; yet there are few recent French studies that provide quantitative data on this issue. It...
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Investigation into a suspected cluster of pediatric cancers in a wine-growing town in Gironde. June 2013
In February 2013, the Aquitaine Regional Health Agency (ARS) was contacted regarding pesticide spraying near a school and a suspected spatiotemporal cluster of pediatric cancers in a...
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Exposure of Pregnant Women to Environmental Pollutants in France in 2011. Perinatal Component of the National Biomonitoring Program Conducted Within the ELFE Cohort - Volume 1: Organic Pollutants
The national biomonitoring program, implemented by Santé publique France (formerly the Institut de veille sanitaire), includes a perinatal component based on a subsample of pregnant...
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Launch of a tool to help track agricultural pesticide exposure in France
The recent Inserm collective review highlights the presumption of a link between prolonged exposure to pesticides and the development of certain diseases. Understanding exposure patterns...
