Exposure of local residents to agricultural pesticide drift
Spraying of plant protection products on crops remains the main method of application.
How to improve indoor air quality for free?
Indoor air pollution combined with the time we spend in buildings can have a significant impact on our health. Reducing indoor air pollution levels is essential to living in a healthy environment and reducing the risk of diseases such as asthma and allergies.
What is known about the perennial PFAS family of pollutants?
Perfluorinated substances or perfluoroalkyls (PFASs) have been manufactured since the 1950s and after decades of use in a wide range of industrial, commercial and household products, they are now widely present in the environment.
EXPORIP 2021 : Results of the campaign
The first participatory campaign on the drift of agricultural pesticides among local residents.
Agricultural pesticide pollution in homes in Europe? What is the reality?
Pesticides or plant protection products are chemical substances used to treat crops against insects, moulds and weeds.
EXPORIP: My family is exposed to agricultural pesticides!
Since April 2021, the association Générations Futures and YOOTEST propose to participate in EXPORIP, a unique study based on participatory science on the dispersion of agricultural pesticide residues near cultivation areas.
Map of pesticide residue measurements in residents
Between March and September, treatments with plant protection products are very frequent.
Residents' exposure to pesticides: Pendimethalin
Every year, tens of thousands of tonnes of pesticides are applied to crops.
Exposure of local residents to agricultural pesticides: Prosulfocarb
With the return of the warm weather, the use of plant protection products is increasing in order to protect crops from undesirable species and to increase agricultural performance.
Exposure of local residents to agricultural pesticides: S-metolachlor
S-metolachlor is an organochlorine herbicide used in particular to weed maize crops but also sunflowers, soya, beetroot, sorghum, millets and beans.
International campaign to measure the dispersion of pesticides during agricultural spraying: EXPORIP
For several years, associations, doctors and local residents have been warning about the exposure of populations to chemical treatments of crops near their homes and workplaces.
Regulation of chemical products: the weight of lobbying on the legislator
You are probably waiting for the legislator to protect you from the health risks of chemical products, but the industrialists are committing colossal means to obtain less restrictive regulations that are contrary to the public's health concerns.
Lethality of poor IAQ, WHO figures
This article is a transcript of the introduction to the study: Overview of Indoor Air Pollution: A Human Health Perspective.
Toxic chemicals compromise the reproductive capacity of the population.
In an article published by online magazine The intercept, journalist Sharon Lerner interviewed epidemiologist Shanna Swan.
Focus on moulds
What is mould?
What are the main types and species of mould?
Scientists agree that there are more than one and a half million species of moulds, of which about one hundred thousand have been precisely identified. Only an identification by laboratory analysis can determine exactly what type of mould you are dealing with.
How can an indoor air analysis reveal soil pollution?
Housing and business premises are often built on former industrial sites. As a result of industrial activities, the soil may have been contaminated by substances dangerous to humans and accumulated pollution for several decades.
Flame retardants: In which everyday goods are they present?
Flame retardants (FR) are chemicals that are intentionally introduced (regulatory obligation) or not into a large number of consumer products to limit their flammability. They are strongly suspected of being reprotoxic and involved in the worrying increase in fertility problems.
How to choose an air purifier?
Indoor pollution is an established fact, it is no longer a subject of debate, it exists because of everyday life (dust, viruses, hair), the emanations from furniture and other furnishing objects (chemical pollutants) and the contribution of outdoor pollution.
Reducing the risk of COVID-19 contamination with the uHoo Air connected sensor
Faced with the very significant increase in the number of infected people and the saturation of health services, the authorities in several countries have decided to confine their populations in order to limit the spread of the SARS-COV2 virus.
Inventory of the lead pollution produced by the fire at Notre Dame de Paris
More than a year after the fire at Notre-Dame de Paris, the official report on environmental pollution by lead is still not available. A team from Columbia University published, in June 2020, the only available study on pollution levels after the fire.
Conception and safe pregnancy: How to improve your chances?
An alert could be issued at the global level on the decrease in human fertility. This affects industrialized countries in particular, and many couples having difficulty having a child turn to preconception consultations, fertility specialists and assisted reproduction clinics. What if a better quality of our daily environment would improve fertility?
Plastic pollution threat in homes and offices
Plastic is fantastic... a phrase that resonates in a new light. If this miracle material is now omnipresent in our daily lives, it now raises public health questions because of the additives it contains.
Which connected air quality sensor is the most reliable?
Indoor air quality (IAQ) is a major public health issue today and its measurement is an effective means of prevention.