A study conducted in six European countries on the presence of pesticides in the human body shows that Latvia has the best situation, as noted by Inese Mārtiņsone, Head of the Laboratory of Hygiene and Occupational Diseases at the Institute of Occupational Safety and Environmental Health of Rīga Stradiņš University, on the Latvijas Radio programme “Zināmais nezināmajā”.
A European biomonitoring project, during which the presence of pesticides in the human body was studied, has recently concluded. Among six European countries, pesticides in people are found least in Latvia, with a large proportion of the substances found linked to food imported from abroad.
The study on pesticide residues in the human body is being carried out in Latvia, the Czech Republic, Spain, Hungary, and the Netherlands. The project analysed families with children aged between 6 and 11 years – one parent and one child participated from each family, forming a pair. (...)