Grantee Research Project Results
Children’s exposure to OP pesticides: response to Fenske et al.
Citation:
Coronado GD, Thompson B, Griffith WC. Children's exposure to OP pesticides:response to Fenske et al. Environmental Health Perspectives 2004;112(15):A866 (correspondence).
Abstract:
First Paragraph. In our article (Coronado et al. 2004), we reported a higher proportion of urine samples containing detectable levels of the organophosphate (OP) pesticide urinary metabolite dimethylthiophosphate (DMTP) from children of farmworkers who reported having thinned plants, compared with urine samples from children of non-thinners. We reported the detection frequency for individual dimethyl metabolites, not a composite score for the detection of multiple dimethyl metabolites. We thank Fenske et al. for their additional analyses showing slightly higher, though not significant, concentrations of urinary DMTP in children of thinners versus non-thinners.The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.