TY - JOUR
T1 - Collection of human and environmental data on pesticide use in Europe and Argentina
T2 - Field study protocol for the SPRINT project
AU - SPRINT
AU - Silva, Vera
AU - Alaoui, Abdallah
AU - Schlünssen, Vivi
AU - Vested, Anne
AU - Graumans, Martien
AU - van Dael, Maurice
AU - Trevisan, Marco
AU - Suciu, Nicoleta
AU - Mol, Hans
AU - Beekmann, Karsten
AU - Figueiredo, Daniel
AU - Harkes, Paula
AU - Hofman, Jakub
AU - Kandeler, Ellen
AU - Abrantes, Nelson
AU - Campos, Isabel
AU - Martínez, María Ángeles
AU - Pereira, Joana Luísa
AU - Goossens, Dirk
AU - Gandrass, Juergen
AU - Debler, Freya
AU - Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta
AU - Jonker, Marlot
AU - van Langevelde, Frank
AU - Sorensen, Martin T
AU - Wells, Jerry M
AU - Boekhorst, Jos
AU - Huss, Anke
AU - Mandrioli, Daniele
AU - Sgargi, Daria
AU - Nathanail, Paul
AU - Nathanail, Judith
AU - Tamm, Lucius
AU - Fantke, Peter
AU - Mark, Jennifer
AU - Grovermann, Christian
AU - Frelih-Larsen, Ana
AU - Herb, Irina
AU - Chivers, Charlotte-Anne
AU - Mills, Jane
AU - Alcon, Francisco
AU - Contreras, Josefina
AU - Baldi, Isabelle
AU - Pasković, Igor
AU - Matjaz, Glavan
AU - Norgaard, Trine
AU - Aparicio, Virginia
AU - Ritsema, Coen J
AU - Geissen, Violette
AU - Scheepers, Paul T J
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Silva et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - Current farm systems rely on the use of Plant Protection Products (PPP) to secure high productivity and control threats to the quality of the crops. However, PPP use may have considerable impacts on human health and the environment. A study protocol is presented aiming to determine the occurrence and levels of PPP residues in plants (crops), animals (livestock), humans and other non-target species (ecosystem representatives) for exposure modelling and impact assessment. To achieve this, we designed a cross-sectional study to compare conventional and organic farm systems across Europe. Environmental and biological samples were/are being/will be collected during the 2021 growing season, at 10 case study sites in Europe covering a range of climate zones and crops. An additional study site in Argentina will inform the impact of PPP use on growing soybean which is an important European protein-source in animal feed. We will study the impact of PPP mixtures using an integrated risk assessment methodology. The fate of PPP in environmental media (soil, water and air) and in the homes of farmers will be monitored. This will be complemented by biomonitoring to estimate PPP uptake by humans and farm animals (cow, goat, sheep and chicken), and by collection of samples from non-target species (earthworms, fish, aquatic and terrestrial macroinvertebrates, bats, and farm cats). We will use data on PPP residues in environmental and biological matrices to estimate exposures by modelling. These exposure estimates together with health and toxicity data will be used to predict the impact of PPP use on environment, plant, animal and human health. The outcome of this study will then be integrated with socio-economic information leading to an overall assessment used to identify transition pathways towards more sustainable plant protection and inform decision makers, practitioners and other stakeholders regarding farming practices and land use policy.
AB - Current farm systems rely on the use of Plant Protection Products (PPP) to secure high productivity and control threats to the quality of the crops. However, PPP use may have considerable impacts on human health and the environment. A study protocol is presented aiming to determine the occurrence and levels of PPP residues in plants (crops), animals (livestock), humans and other non-target species (ecosystem representatives) for exposure modelling and impact assessment. To achieve this, we designed a cross-sectional study to compare conventional and organic farm systems across Europe. Environmental and biological samples were/are being/will be collected during the 2021 growing season, at 10 case study sites in Europe covering a range of climate zones and crops. An additional study site in Argentina will inform the impact of PPP use on growing soybean which is an important European protein-source in animal feed. We will study the impact of PPP mixtures using an integrated risk assessment methodology. The fate of PPP in environmental media (soil, water and air) and in the homes of farmers will be monitored. This will be complemented by biomonitoring to estimate PPP uptake by humans and farm animals (cow, goat, sheep and chicken), and by collection of samples from non-target species (earthworms, fish, aquatic and terrestrial macroinvertebrates, bats, and farm cats). We will use data on PPP residues in environmental and biological matrices to estimate exposures by modelling. These exposure estimates together with health and toxicity data will be used to predict the impact of PPP use on environment, plant, animal and human health. The outcome of this study will then be integrated with socio-economic information leading to an overall assessment used to identify transition pathways towards more sustainable plant protection and inform decision makers, practitioners and other stakeholders regarding farming practices and land use policy.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0259748
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0259748
M3 - Article
C2 - 34780516
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 16
SP - 1
EP - 21
JO - PLoS One
JF - PLoS One
IS - 11
M1 - e0259748
ER -