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Pesticides - leading cause of poisoning in India
June 5 , 2021
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- ‘Toxicoepidemiology of poisoning exhibited in Indian population from 2010 to 2020: A systematic review and meta-analysis’ was the study published by the British Medical Journal.
- It revealed that pesticides were the main case of poisoning in India, with an overall prevalence of 63 per cent.
- It is due to widespread use of pesticides for agricultural and household activities.
- According to the study, the prevalence of pesticide poisoning in the adult population was 65 per cent and 22 per cent in children.
- An analysis of the region-wise distribution of the prevalence of poisoning showed that it was
- the highest in north India at 79 per cent
- followed by south India (65.9 per cent),
- central India (59.2 per cent),
- west India (53.1 per cent),
- north east India (46.9 per cent) and
- east India (38.5 per cent).
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