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An Urgent Need to Restrict Access to Pesticides Based on Human Lethality

Matthew Miller and Kavi Bhalla discuss new research findings from Andrew Dawson and colleagues on the human toxicity of pesticides in Sri Lanka, and call for urgent reclassification of agricultural pesticides to help reduce suicides by poisonings.

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Autores principales: Miller, Matthew, Bhalla, Kavi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21048989
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000358
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spelling pubmed-29643392010-11-03 An Urgent Need to Restrict Access to Pesticides Based on Human Lethality Miller, Matthew Bhalla, Kavi PLoS Med Perspective Matthew Miller and Kavi Bhalla discuss new research findings from Andrew Dawson and colleagues on the human toxicity of pesticides in Sri Lanka, and call for urgent reclassification of agricultural pesticides to help reduce suicides by poisonings. Public Library of Science 2010-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2964339/ /pubmed/21048989 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000358 Text en Miller, Bhalla. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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An Urgent Need to Restrict Access to Pesticides Based on Human Lethality
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title_fullStr An Urgent Need to Restrict Access to Pesticides Based on Human Lethality
title_full_unstemmed An Urgent Need to Restrict Access to Pesticides Based on Human Lethality
title_short An Urgent Need to Restrict Access to Pesticides Based on Human Lethality
title_sort urgent need to restrict access to pesticides based on human lethality
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21048989
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000358
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