Pesticides and Nutrition: Τhe Side Effects of Glyphosate

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Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Περιβάλλον και Υγεία: Διαχείριση Περιβαλλοντικών Θεμάτων με Επιπτώσεις στην Υγεία
Library of the School of Health Sciences
Deposit date:
2018-07-18
Year:
2018
Author:
Giannakitsa Varvara
Supervisors info:
Πολυξένη Νικολοπούλου Σταμάτη, Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Ιωάννης Τσάκνης, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Τεχνολογίας Τροφίμων, ΤΕΙ Αθήνας
Ανδρέας Χ. Λάζαρης, Καθηγητής, Ιατρική, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Φυτοφαρμάκα και Διατροφή: Οι παρενέργειες της γλυφοσάτης
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
Pesticides and Nutrition: Τhe Side Effects of Glyphosate
Summary:
The present paper, entitled "Pesticides and Nutrition: Τhe Side Effects of Glyphosate", was conducted during the academic year 2017-2018, within the framework of my studies in Medical School of Athens in the postgraduate program “Environment and Health: Capacity Building for Decision Making”.
This work is structured in three separate chapters. In the first chapter titled "Pesticides", the types of pesticides and their toxicological characteristics are mentioned. Additionally, a brief reference is made to the Legislative Framework in Greece concerning the use and marketing of pesticides.
The second chapter, entitled "Pesticides and Human Health", deals with the effects of pesticides on humans and describes the determination of pesticide residues in food.
In the third and final chapter of the paper, entitled "Glyphosate", some general descriptive data of this substance are initially reported and global statistics are available on the use of glyphosate. Then the effects of glyphosate on human health and the way glyphosate passes through human food are analyzed.
The conclusions from the whole work follow and list the bibliography used to synthesize this bibliographic review, based on the Harvard bibliographic system is mentioned in the end.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Herbicides, Glyphosate, Side effects of glyphosate, Nutrition, Human health, Pesticide residues in food, Human food
Index:
No
Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
Yes
Number of references:
72
Number of pages:
53
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