An organic diet is an effective way to reduce exposure to the organophosphorus pesticides commonly used in agricultural production.
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These agents are still used today as antidotes to organophosphorus nerve agent poisoning, including accidental poisoning by organophosphorus pesticides.
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But there are many organophosphorus pesticides, including malathion and phosmet, that produce these metabolites and they can vary widely in toxicity.
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The questions remain, in part, because researchers measured organophosphorus pesticide exposure by testing the level of the pesticides'metabolites, or breakdown products, in the children's urine.
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A study published in 2006 by Lu et al . measured the levels of organophosphorus pesticide exposure in 23 school children before and after replacing their diet with organic food.
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Curl said the research was begun because an earlier study of the effects of income level on pesticide exposure found one child with absolutely no organophosphorus pesticide byproduct in his urine _ a highly unusual situation.
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In this study it was found that levels of organophosphorus pesticide exposure dropped from negligible levels to undetectable levels when the children switched to an organic diet, the authors presented this reduction as a significant reduction in risk.
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Despite the fact that sarin cannot be manufactured from pesticides, Keiichi Tsuneishi, a Japanese historian, claimed the nerve agent is synthesizable from organophosphorus pesticides, and KMno was dubbed by some in the media " the Poison Gas Man " and received hate mail, death threats, and intense legal pressure.
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However, PON1 has evolved to be a highly promiscuous enzyme capable of hydrolysing a wide variety of substrates such as lactones ( including a number of important pharmaceutical agents such as statins ), glucuronide drugs, thiolactones, arylesters, cyclic carbonates, organophosphorus pesticides and nerve gases such as sarin, soman and VX, oestrogen esters and lipid-peroxides ( oxidised lipids ).
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Yet the Phillips Inquiry has been reported as concluding that " [ t ] he theory that BSE is caused by the application to cattle of organophosphorus pesticides is not viable, although there is a possibility that these can increase the susceptibility of cattle to BSE . " Australian and CDC reports differed in material aspects from the Phillips Inquiry by differentiating causation and susceptibility.
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