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Prenatal Exposure to Emerging Pesticides and Childhood Allergy Risk: A First Mixture Assessment in an Urban Cohort

2025-11-15 toxicology Title + abstract only
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Pesticide gestational exposure may contribute to the development of allergies in childhood, yet evidence on its health impact on urban populations remains limited. This study investigates the association between prenatal exposure to individual and mixed pesticides and allergic outcomes, including asthma, wheezing, and eczema, at age 6 in 387 mother-child pairs from the LiNA cohort. Forty pesticides and metabolites were detected in urine during pregnancy through non-targeted screening, and 11 wer...

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