Journal of Environment and Health Science Journal of Environment and Health Science Journal of Environment and Health Science Journal of Environment and Health Science 2378-6841Ommega Online PublishersNew Jersey, USA102510.15436/2378-6841.16.1025Research ArticleImpact of Environmental Pollutants Present in Food on Public Health Impact of Environmental Pollutants Present in Food on Public Health Octavio PLuzardo 1Toxicology Unit Research Institute of Biomedical and Health Sciences IUIBS University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2Spanish Biomedical Research Centre in Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition CIBERObn Editor* E-mail: octavio.perez@ulpgc.es
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
20160209201623JEHS-16-RA-102522072016260820162016Creative Commons Attribution LicenseThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. nbsp emsp emsp Pesticides are the only chemicals that are intentionally released to the environment with the purpose of killing living things Therefore all classes of pesticides are toxic by definition at least for some forms of life and have the potential of causing harm to non-target organisms It has been demonstrated that humans are continuously exposed to a cocktail of pesticides mainly through the daily food and it has been estimated that a given consumer could be exposed to as much as 1 mg day of a mixture of these toxic chemicals Studies demonstrate that this exposure begins even before conception and is continued during the uterine period and afterwards throughout the entire life We can now say that pesticide exposure may be a risk factor for many chronic diseases of complex etiology as it has been demonstrated they may induce alterations in a the endocrine system reproductive and developmental disorders increased risk of hormone-dependent tumors such as breast or testis and alterations in the thyroid function or growth hormone levels b cardiovascular System altering blood pressure and or heart function c metabolism some pesticides are obesogenic and diabetogenic compounds d central nervous system relating pesticide exposure in children with neurocognitive disorders or neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson rsquo s and Alzheimer rsquo s diseases in adults or autism in children or e cancer In this short review we briefly describe the main proven adverse effects to human rsquo s health which are attributable to the exposure to pesticides 10