Pesticides

And its ill effect

GROUP 6B (DR. AROKIA BABU)

“ Pesticide is any substance or its mixture that is used for preventing, destroying or

controlling any pest, which includes vectors of human or animal disease as well as

unwanted species of plants or animals that

causes harm.”

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

CLASSIFICATION:

Insecticides Herbicides Rodenticides Fungicides

CLASSIFICATION:

Insecticides Herbicides Rodenticides Fungicides………..

A pesticide must be lethal to the targeted pests, but not to man.

On the basis of pest control, insecticide ( against insect pest), herbicides (killing and controlling weeds) while rodenticide (prevent, destroy, repel or mitigate rodents).

In terms of chemical composition:o Insecticides: Anthranilic diamide,

carbamate, pyrethroids, organochloride, organophospate and neonicotinoid

o Herbicide: Anilide o Rodenticide: 4-Hydroxycoumarins

FACTS ABOUT PESTICIDE

Did you know that only 5% of

pesticides sprayed actually reach

their target? And the rest of it go to:-

The food we eat

The water we drink

The air we breath

So, how do they act on our body??

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OW THEY ACT ON OUR BODY ?

Neonicotinoid

Anthranilic diamide

ani

AnilideRodenticide

(4-hydroxycoumarins )

Pesticide Acute toxicity --- Classification of WHO

CLASS IA is extremely hazardous and demarcated in red

CLASS IB is highly hazardous and symbolized by an yellow triangle

CLASS II is moderately hazardous and marked by a blue triangle

CLASS III is slightly hazardous

CLASS IV is unlikely to cause acute hazard in normal use

Pesticide exposures include inhalation, ingestion, skin contact, or across the placenta.

Similar doses of different pesticides can have varyingeffects to humans.

Pesticide has its ups and

downs……

They can pose severe health and environmental problems. These includes

Neurotoxicity, Renal Toxicity, Respiratory Toxicity, Immunotoxicity, Reproductive Toxicity, Teratogenicity, Genotoxicity And Carcinogenicity.

Mgt of

pesticide contact

Symptoms: Monitored by antidote.

Clothes: Removed

and washed separately.

Skin: Wash with soap and

water.

Eyes: Wash with

copious amounts of

water.

Protect airway, skin+GI

decontaminationand

convulsion Tx.

1. DEATH-- Pesticides have been associated

with a number of illnesses.

2. RISK-- Fleming et al (2003) discovered that

farmers were at greater risk of accidental

mortality.3. CANCER-- Both male and female workers had higher risk of cancers of the nervous, lymphatic

and hematopoietic systems.

EFFECT

OF

PESTICIDE

1. http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/agricult/agp/agpp/pesticide/code/download/code. pdf

2. http://www.envisnioh.org/Pesticides%20and%20Health.pdf3. http://www.hartfordhospital.org/Portals/1/Images/22/

PerinatalSymposium2011/Pestici des%20and%20Health%20Risks.pdf 4. http://nutriweb.org.my/publications/mjn0010_1/mjn10n1_art6.pdf5. http://www.occup-med.com/content/pdf/1745-6673-2-9.pdf6. http://www.slideshare.net/nfmmag/the-organic-centers-core-truth