{"id":3116,"date":"2020-10-05T09:03:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T13:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2020-10-05T09:03:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T13:03:59","slug":"pesticide-mixtures-harm-health-even-when-each-pesticide-is-present-at-safe-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/pesticide-mixtures-harm-health-even-when-each-pesticide-is-present-at-safe-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Pesticide mixtures harm health even when each pesticide is present at &#8220;safe&#8221; levels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Mixtures of pesticide residues commonly found in foods in the EU can have adverse effects on health even when each individual pesticide is present at a level considered safe by regulators, a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.08.25.266528v1\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a>\u00a0shows.<\/p><p>The study also found that the use of molecular analytical techniques known as &#8220;omics&#8221; can reveal adverse effects on health that are missed by the standard toxicological measures used to support regulatory authorisations of pesticides.<\/p><p>The study found that the standard toxicological measures \u2013 analysis of water and feed consumption, body weight, histology (microscopic examination of tissues), and blood biochemistry \u2013 showed little or no evidence of harm. But in contrast, the omics analyses showed biochemical changes in the gut and blood and gene function changes in the liver that indicated the possible onset of harm.<\/p><cite>GM Watch: <a href=\"https:\/\/gmwatch.org\/en\/news\/latest-news\/19547\">https:\/\/gmwatch.org\/en\/news\/latest-news\/19547<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixtures of pesticide residues commonly found in foods in the EU can have adverse effects on health even when each individual pesticide is present at a level considered safe by regulators, a\u00a0new study\u00a0shows. The study also found that the use of molecular analytical techniques known as &#8220;omics&#8221; can reveal adverse effects on health that are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[69],"class_list":{"0":"post-3116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-pesticides","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"NPA","author_link":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/author\/moore\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions\/3117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.headlice.org\/comb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}