What is the meaning of systemic effects of acute pesticide poisoning?
Systemic effects of pesticide poisoning occur when the pesticide gets inside the body and affects the whole system. The blood carries the pesticide to all the parts of the body and can affect the eyes. heart, lungs, stomach, intestines, liver, kidneys, muscles, brain and nerves. • Isn’t it true that the pesticide testing conducted on laboratory animals is not always applicable to humans? Because it is ethically unacceptable to test pesticides on humans, animals such as rats and mice are used. The effects on these animals are not always the same as on humans. Sometime they are affected more, sometime less. In the case of the drug thalidomide, test animals were unaffected, whereas humans suffered tragic birth abnormalities. Chemicals causing cancer in animals are not always men, with the possible exception of arsenic, also do so in experimental animals, generally rodents. • What about pesticides and the food we eat? For most of us, the primary exposure is what we eat and drink. Maximum R
