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pesticide and pathogen contamination of vegetables in ghana's urban markets.the objective of the study was to determine and compare the current level of exposure of the ghanaian urban population to hazardous pesticide and fecal coliform contamination through the consumption of fresh vegetables produced in intensive urban and periurban smallholder agriculture with informal wastewater irrigation. a total of 180 vegetable samples (lettuce, cabbage, and spring onion) were randomly collected under normal purchase conditions from 9 major markets and 12 specialized selling poi ...200616328619
quantification of the health risk associated with wastewater reuse in accra, ghana: a contribution toward local guidelines.quantitative microbial risk assessment (qmra) models with 10,000 monte carlo simulations were applied to ascertain the risks of rotavirus and ascaris infections for farmers using different irrigation water qualities and consumers of lettuce irrigated with the different water qualities after allowing post-harvest handling. a tolerable risk (tr) of infection of 7.7 x 10(-4) and 1 x 10(-2) per person per year were used for rotavirus and ascaris respectively. the risk of ascaris infection was within ...200818401111
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