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Review

Pesticides analysis in alternative biological matrices

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Pages 809-824 | Received 02 Dec 2021, Accepted 11 Jun 2022, Published online: 23 Jun 2022
 

Abstract

This review aims to bring together the works on pesticide analysis in alternative biological matrices, such as hair, breast milk, meconium, and placenta. Much is known about the harmful effects of the use and indirect consumption of pesticides; however, the assessment of long-term contamination is still unclear. In this sense, the use of hair as an alternative biological matrix has some advantages, such as segmentation, which makes it possible to assess the presence of xenobiotics to which individuals have been exposed over the years, and possibly relate this exposure to symptoms or diseases that may affect them. Complementarily, the other matrices discussed are able to provide information about the exposure of mothers and newborn children, who may have been indistinctly exposed to pesticides while in the womb. Through the analysis of studies already performed, it can be observed that organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) are the most likely to be found within the biological matrices discussed here, due to the lipophilic characteristics of these compounds. For the other classes, biotransformation products are more easily detected.

Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the financial support from fellowships from the agencies CAPES, CNPq, and FAPERGS.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

The authors thanks to Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq - Chamada DAI No. 12/2020, by the research grant.

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