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Occurrence and risk assessment of steroid estrogens in environmental water samples: A five-year worldwide perspective.  

 

Sorption of pharmaceuticals and personal care products on soil and soil components: Influencing factors and mechanisms.  

 

Treatment technologies for emerging contaminants in wastewater treatment plants: A review.  

 

Fetal phthalates and bisphenols and childhood lipid and glucose metabolism. A population-based prospective cohort study.  

 

Estimated Dietary Bisphenol-A Exposure and Adiposity in Samoan Mothers and Children. 

 

Effect of di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) on allergic rhinitis.  

 

Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate limits the pleiotropic effects of statins in chronic kidney disease patients undergoing dialysis and endothelial cells.  

 

 

Peripubertal serum concentrations of organochlorine pesticides and semen parameters in Russian young men. 

 

 

Dysregulated lipid and fatty acid metabolism link perfluoroalkyl substances exposure and impaired glucose metabolism in young adults.  

 

Association between prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and respiratory tract infections in preschool children.  

 

 

Cholinesterase Inhibition and Exposure to Organophosphate Esters in Aircraft Maintenance Workers.  

 

 

Maternal exposure to pesticides and risk of childhood lymphoma in France: A pooled analysis of the ESCALE and ESTELLE studies (SFCE).  

 

Pesticide exposure and related health problems among family members of farmworkers in southeast Iran. A case-control study.  

 

Altered tumor suppressor genes expression in Egyptian pesticide applicators exposed to organophosphate insecticides.  

 

The acetylcholinesterase as indicative of intoxication for pesticide in farmers of conventional and organic cultivation.  

 

 

Spatial heterogeneity in the association between particulate matter air pollution and low birth weight in South Korea.  

 

Levels of PM₁₀ and PM_2.5 and Respiratory Health Impacts on School-Going Children in Kenya.  

 

Asthma and allergic rhinitis among young parents in China in relation to outdoor air pollution, climate and home environment.  

 

Effect of Air Pollution on Glutathione S-Transferase Activity and Total Antioxidant Capacity: Cross Sectional Study in Kuwait.  

 

The association between ambient air pollution and blood lipids: A longitudinal study in Shijiazhuang, China.  

 

Gait and balance disturbances are common in young urbanites and associated with cognitive impairment. Air pollution and the historical development of Alzheimer’s disease in the young.  

 

Early-life exposure to traffic-related air pollution and child anthropometry.  

 

Machine learning reveals that prolonged exposure to air pollution is associated with SARS-CoV-2 mortality and infectivity in Italy.  

 

Modification of caesarean section on the associations between air pollution and childhood asthma in seven Chinese cities.  

 

 

PCDD/Fs in paired hair and serum of workers from a municipal solid waste incinerator plant in South China: Concentrations, correlations, and source identification.  

 

Multiple stressors and data deficient populations; a comparative life-history approach sheds new light on the extinction risk of the highly vulnerable Baltic harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena).  

 

Bio-accumulation of organic contaminants in Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins: Preliminary unique features of the brain and testes. 

 

Evidence of continued exposure to legacy persistent organic pollutants in threatened migratory common terns nesting in the Great Lakes. 

 

Movement of synthetic organic compounds in the food web after the introduction of invasive quagga mussels (Dreissena bugensis) in Lake Mead, Nevada and Arizona, USA.  

 

 

Stranded cetaceans warn of high perfluoroalkyl substance pollution in the western Mediterranean Sea.  

 

Trends and Patterns of Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Blood Samples of Bald Eagle Nestlings in Wisconsin and Minnesota, USA.  

 

Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in surface water and sediments from two urban watersheds in Nevada, USA.  

 

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl contaminated freshwater impacts adjacent riparian food webs.  

 

Legacy and emerging per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in multi-media around a landfill in China: Implications for the usage of PFASs alternatives.  

 

Effect of washing, soaking, and cooking methods on perfluorinated compounds in mackerel (Scomber japonicus).  

 

Perfluoroalkyl acids and sulfonamides and dietary, biological and ecological associations in peregrine falcons from the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin, Canada.  

 

Enrichment of perfluoroalkyl substances in the sea-surface microlayer and sea-spray aerosols in the Southern Ocean.  

 

 

New Mixed Bromine/Chlorine Transformation Products of Tetrabromobisphenol A: Synthesis and Identification in Dust Samples from an E-waste Dismantling Site.  

 

Concentration profile, spatial distributions and temporal trends of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in sediments across China: Implications for risk assessment.  

 

 

Impact of better cotton initiative on health cost and pesticide exposure of women cotton pickers in Punjab, Pakistan. 

 

Internet can do help in the reduction of pesticide use by farmers: evidence from rural China. 

 

Animal-derived and plant-derived protein supplement feeds are important sources of organophosphate esters in the food supply. 

 

Sensitive and selective quantification of glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) in urine of the general population by gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. 

 

Pesticides and their degradates in groundwater reflect past use and current management strategies, Long Island, New York, USA.  

 

A micronucleus assay detects genotoxic effects of herbicide exposure in a protected butterfly species.  

 

Larval pesticide exposure impacts monarch butterfly performance.  

 

There are a number of pesticide-related articles in the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Journal, including a number of pesticide risk assessments that I am not including here, plus some more general articles, for example:

 

Cumulative dietary risk characterisation of pesticides that have chronic effects on the thyroid. 

 

 

The 2018 European Union report on pesticide residues in food. 

 

Selection of priority pesticides in Japanese drinking water quality regulation: Validity, limitations, and evolution of a risk prediction method.  

 

 

Using a geographic information system to assess local scale methylmercury exposure from fish in nine communities of the eeyou istchee territory (james bay, quebec, canada).  

 

Comparative Evaluation of Heavy Metal Concentrations in Residents of Abandoned Metal Mines.  

 

Risk assessment of human exposure to radionuclides and heavy metals in oil-based mud samples used for drilling operation.  

 

Air Quality Change in Seoul, South Korea under COVID-19 Social Distancing: Focusing on PM_2.5.  

 

How Did Distribution Patterns of Particulate Matter Air Pollution (PM_2.5 and PM₁₀) Change in China during the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Spatiotemporal Investigation at Chinese City-Level.  

 

Spatiotemporal impacts of COVID-19 on air pollution in California, USA.  

 

 

Multi-phase distribution, spatiotemporal variation and risk assessment of antibiotics in a typical urban-rural watershed.  

 

A suspect screening analysis for contaminants of emerging concern in municipal wastewater and surface water using liquid-liquid extraction and stir bar sorptive extraction.  

 

 

Rainbow darter (Etheostoma caeruleum) from a river impacted by municipal wastewater effluents have altered gut content microbiomes.  

 

Determination of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Water and Wastewater Samples by Liquid Chromatography-Negative Ion Electrospray Ionization-Tandem Mass Spectrometry.