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Farm Animal Exposure to Pesticides

Farm-animal exposure to pesticides was assessed based on pesticide concentrations from the SPRINT feed dataset. Calculated exposures were below the reference points of no adverse animal health effect for all combinates for farm-animal and pesticide, with exception for Pirimiphos-methyl in Chickens. Here, exposure exceeded the reference points of no adverse animal health effect at the 93.7th percentile. Consequently, 6.3% of the chickens could be at potential chronic health risk when consuming pirimiphos-methyl contaminated feed. Pirimiphos-methyl was detected in 33% of all analyzed SPRINT chicken feed samples. Assuming a similar contamination rate and concentration distribution across the EU, an estimated 2.079% (0.33 x 6.3%) of the chicken population could be at risk. It is important to stress that only a limited number of feed samples were collected (N=64),  hence these results need to be interpreted with caution.

In the tool below, the user can visualize the exposure distributions for combination of pesticide and farm-animal. Select animal and then pesticide of interest to visualize the exposure distribution.

Note that not every combination of animal and pesticide will yield data. You can loop through the items to find the combinations with data.