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Environmental monitoring and potential health risk assessment from Pymetrozine exposure among communities in typical rice-growing areas of China

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Pymetrozine is one of the most commonly used insecticides in China. This study was conducted to analyse Pymetrozine’s potential exposures through various environmental routes beyond the treatment areas. The aim was to estimate the potential health risk for communities due to non-dietary exposures to Pymetrozine in soil and paddy water. Data on registration of pesticides in China, government reports, questionnaires, interviews and literature reviews as well as toxicological health investigations were evaluated to determine the hazard and dose–response characteristics of Pymetrozine. These were based on the US EPA exposure and human health risk assessment methods and exposure data from soil and paddy water samples collected between 10 and 20 m around the resident’s location. The exposure doses from dermal contact through soil and paddy water were estimated. The potential cancer risk from the following exposure routes was evaluated: ingestion through soil; dermal contact exposure through soil; dermal contact exposure through paddy water. The potential total cancer risk for residents was estimated to be less than 1 × 10−6. These were relatively low and within the acceptable risk levels. The potential hazard quotient (HQ) from acute and lifetime exposure by dermal contact through paddy water and soil and acute and lifetime exposure by soil ingestion for residents was less than 1, indicating an acceptable risk level. This study suggested that there were negligible cancer risk and non-cancer risks based on ingestion and dermal contact routes of exposure to residents.

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Funding

This study was financially supported by National Key R&D Program of China (no. 2018YFC0407502). I (Muyesaier TUDI) express my gratefulness to Griffith University, Australia, and the Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science which provided funding and resources to this research work. I also express my gratefulness to all the staff and students at the Institute of Plant Protection Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science who helped and supported me during the fieldwork and laboratory work. In addition, I express my gratefulness to Professor Yong Quan Zheng who provided support to this research work. Moreover, I express my gratefulness to Associate Professor Xiao Hu Wu who provided technical support to the laboratory work of his research work. I also express my thankfulness to Mr. Shuan-Quan Yuan and Mr. Feng Yang from the Beijing ECO-SAF Technology Co., Ltd. and Mr. Min Luo from the Shuang Feng Agriculture Department Lou Di city Hunan Province China who provided technical support during my fieldwork. Furthermore, I express my thankfulness to all the farmers and residents who provided help and support for this research work.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 11 Datun Road, Beijing, 100101, China

    Muyesaier Tudi, Li Wang & Shuangmei Tong

  2. Centre for Environment and Population Health, School of Medicine, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD, 4111, Australia

    Muyesaier Tudi, Huada Daniel Ruan, Albert Atabila, Ross Sadler & Dung Tri Phung

  3. Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, 6200, MD, Maastricht, the Netherlands

    Li Wang

  4. College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Li Wang & Shuangmei Tong

  5. Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, 2000 Jintong Road, Tangjiawan, Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China

    Huada Daniel Ruan

  6. Department of Biological, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, P. O. Box LG13, Legon, Accra, Ghana

    Albert Atabila

  7. School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, Nathan Campus, Brisbane, QLD, 4111, Australia

    Qiming Jimmy Yu

  8. School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD, 4111, Australia

    Des Connell

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MT: conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, methodology, validation, writing—original draft and writing—review and editing. RDH: validation, resources, supervision, funding acquisition and writing—review and editing. ST: validation, resources, supervision. LW: validation, resources, supervision. AA: validation, resources, supervision. RS: validation, resources, supervision. QJY: validation, resources, supervision. DC: validation, resources, supervision. DTP: validation, resources and project administration.

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Tudi, M., Wang, L., Ruan, H.D. et al. Environmental monitoring and potential health risk assessment from Pymetrozine exposure among communities in typical rice-growing areas of China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 59547–59560 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-19927-z

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