Long-term monitoring of pesticide residues on public sites: A regional approach to survey and reduce spray drift

Plant protection strongly increased food safety and agricultural productivity, but with societal and environmental costs as the downside. Especially the contamination of non-target areas via spray drift represents an adverse side-effect. Residential zones and playgrounds are so-called “sensitive zones”, where spray drift is considered to have an increased potential for human health risk. To study the residue profile potentially associated with spray drift we analyzed data of a residue monitoring program in South Tyrol (Northern Italy). From 2018 to 2021, 39 playgrounds were analyzed multiple times per year for the presence and concentration of pesticide residues on grass samples. In a total of 399 samples, we identified 39 different residues deriving primarily from agricultural production. Mean concentration (0.0645 mg kg−1, SD: ± 0.1013 mg kg−1) and comparison to Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) of food, revealed that 98.2% of the residues were in the range of MRLs and close to the analytical limit of quantification. We found that 6 out of 334 residues had relatively elevated concentrations clearly above the MRLs. Finally, a time series analysis of the study period revealed a significant decrease in the number of detected residues and their concentration by 72% and 78%, respectively. In the last year of this study, playgrounds showed on average 1.46 residues (SD: ± 1.252) with a mean concentration of 0.012 mg kg−1 (SD: ± 0.025), which is almost equal to the limit of detection (0.01 mg kg−1). The presented results demonstrate that 1) spray drift decreased significantly within 4-year and that 2) the introduced measures to decrease spray drift have been effective. Consequently, these results imply 3) that improved farming practice represents an important leverage point of further spray drift reduction

L’incidenza del parto pretermine nel Centro Ospedaliero Princesse Grace del Principato di Monaco

Il parto pretermine rappresenta tuttora una patologia della gravidanza di estrema rilevanza, essendo gravato da un’elevata morbosità e mortalità neonatale. È caratterizzato da un’eziopatogenesi di tipo multifattoriale: differenti fattori, di origine sia materna che fetale, fra loro variamente combinati, contribuiscono in diversa misura nel determinare la sua insorgenza. Uno dei principali obiettivi del management dei feti prematuri è pertanto quello di evitare l’asfissia fetale e, conseguentemente, le sequele più gravi: la mortalità peri-partale e le sequele a distanza, soprattutto neurologiche, tra cui l’infermità motoria-cerebrale. Al fine di verificare i fattori di rischio, l’incidenza ed il management del parto pretermine in una popolazione di livello medio-alto, sia pure multietnica, è stata studiata la percentuale di parti pretermine presso il CHPG del Principato di Monaco nel periodo compreso da gennaio 2002 a febbraio 200

I risultati dei focus group

Analisi testuale attraverso spad-t di 3 focus group al fine di capire la rappresentazione del benessere organizzativoa partire dalla variabile "ruolo aziendale", declinata in sindacalista, lavoratore, manager

I risultati delle interviste semistrutturate

Analisi delle interviste ai rappresentanti sindacali Cisl di Verona e delle interviste ai rappresentanti aziendali coinvolti nella ricerca sulla percezione del benessere organizzativo, mobbing e stres

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Plant protection strongly increased food safety and agricultural productivity, but with societal and environmental costs as the downside. Especially the contamination of non-target areas via spray drift represents an adverse side-effect. Residential zones and playgrounds are so-called “sensitive zones”, where spray drift is considered to have an increased potential for human health risk. To study the residue profile potentially associated with spray drift we analyzed data of a residue monitoring program in South Tyrol (Northern Italy). From 2018 to 2021, 39 playgrounds were analyzed multiple times per year for the presence and concentration of pesticide residues on grass samples. In a total of 399 samples, we identified 39 different residues deriving primarily from agricultural production. Mean concentration (0.0645 mg kg−1, SD: ± 0.1013 mg kg−1) and comparison to Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) of food, revealed that 98.2% of the residues were in the range of MRLs and close to the analytical limit of quantification. We found that 6 out of 334 residues had relatively elevated concentrations clearly above the MRLs. Finally, a time series analysis of the study period revealed a significant decrease in the number of detected residues and their concentration by 72% and 78%, respectively. In the last year of this study, playgrounds showed on average 1.46 residues (SD: ± 1.252) with a mean concentration of 0.012 mg kg−1 (SD: ± 0.025), which is almost equal to the limit of detection (0.01 mg kg−1). The presented results demonstrate that 1) spray drift decreased significantly within 4-year and that 2) the introduced measures to decrease spray drift have been effective. Consequently, these results imply 3) that improved farming practice represents an important leverage point of further spray drift reduction.</p