Exposure to currently used pesticides in Belgian children: Urinary biomonitoring and risk assessment of frequently detected chlorpyrifos and pyrethroid metabolites

Fatima den Ouden; Liesa Engelen; Adam Cseresznye; Elias Maris; Celine Gys; Stijn Bosschaerts; Roger Pero-Gascon; Lieselot Y. Hemeryck; Ellen De Paepe; Michelle Plusquin; Charlotte Cosemans; Esmee M. Bijnens; Arnau Vich Vila; Jeroen Raes; Lynn Vanhaecke; Marthe De Boevre; Sarah De Saeger; Tim S. Nawrot; Giulia Poma; Adrian Covaci

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2026.124858

Exposure to currently used pesticides in Belgian children: Urinary biomonitoring and risk assessment of frequently detected chlorpyrifos and pyrethroid metabolites

Fatima den Ouden^*
, Liesa Engelen
, Adam Cseresznye
, Elias Maris
, Celine Gys
, Stijn Bosschaerts
, Roger Pero-Gascon
, Lieselot Y. Hemeryck
, Ellen De Paepe
, Michelle Plusquin
, Charlotte Cosemans
, Esmee M. Bijnens
, Arnau Vich Vila
, Jeroen Raes
, Lynn Vanhaecke
, Marthe De Boevre
, Sarah De Saeger
, Tim S. Nawrot
, Giulia Poma
, Adrian Covaci^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Original language	English
Article number	124858
Number of pages	11
Journal	Environmental Research
Volume	304
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2026.124858
Publication status	Published - Aug 2026

Keywords

Exposure determinants
Food frequency questionnaire
Human biomonitoring
Human exposome
Pesticides
Urine

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den Ouden, F., Engelen, L., Cseresznye, A., Maris, E., Gys, C., Bosschaerts, S., Pero-Gascon, R., Hemeryck, L. Y., De Paepe, E., Plusquin, M., Cosemans, C., Bijnens, E. M., Vila, A. V., Raes, J., Vanhaecke, L., De Boevre, M., De Saeger, S., Nawrot, T. S., Poma, G., & Covaci, A. (2026). Exposure to currently used pesticides in Belgian children: Urinary biomonitoring and risk assessment of frequently detected chlorpyrifos and pyrethroid metabolites. Environmental Research, 304, Article 124858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2026.124858

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