Organophosphate Pesticides Cumulative Health Risk Assessment Fact Sheet

A cumulative health risk assessment (CRA) examines the possibility of exposure to more than one pesticide with a shared mechanism of toxicity at the same time. It considers combined exposures from food, drinking water and non-occupational residential sources. The CRA for organophosphate (OP) insecticides is focused on OPs that act similarly in the human nervous system by inhibiting acetylcholinesterase…
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