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Join us on September 9, 2025, for an exciting lecture with Prof. Hans Kromhout, who will explore why it is so difficult to get clear answers about the health effects of pesticide exposure and offer a nuanced insight into this highly debated issue.

Pesticides and their effects on human health have lately attracted a lot of media attention. Citizens moving from urban to more rural areas getting worried about their children, neurologists suggesting that increasing numbers of diagnosis of Parkinson Disease must be due to environmental exposure to pesticides, judges that overrule registration boards, farmers who no longer are allowed to grow certain crops near residences have created a lot of unrest and confusion.

Informative human observational studies on the effect of pesticides are clearly needed, but they are extremely difficult to achieve given the large number of active ingredients used over time and, simultaneously, very low concentrations among local residents and multiple routes of exposure (dietary uptake).

Dr Hans Kromhout is an exposure scientist and epidemiologist working at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��. He is an international authority on occupational and environmental exposure assessment for epidemiological studies. His work has covered the health effects of chemical and physical (EMF) agents in the workplace and general environment. He has participated in large international occupational studies in among others agriculture, asphalt industry, rubber manufacturing industry, industrial minerals industry and the health sector as well as community-based studies on cancer, respiratory diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, and reproductive health effects.

Studies on occupational exposure to pesticides in the Netherlands, Central America and Africa (Kenya, South Africa, Ethiopia and Uganda) have always been close to his heart.

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