Trends in glyphosate herbicide use in the United States and globally
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...At present, there is a widespread concern about effects of herbicides on human health, such as glyphosate that is of common use in agriculture and in cities to control weeds, and is a main carcinogenic agent (Araújo et al. 2016; Benbrook 2016)....
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...Glyphosate is the most widely applied pesticide worldwide, and in the USA, in 2014 farmers applied glyphosate at a rate of about 1 kg/ha in croplands (Benbrook 2016)....
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...The half-life times of glyphosate and AMPA, also of importance in the respect of the amounts found in soils, are highly variable, ranging from a few days up to one or two years, depending on edaphic and environmental conditions, namely temperature and soil moisture (Bento et al., 2016; EFSA, 2013)....
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...AMPA is more persistent than glyphosate, and the degradation of both compounds is slower at colder aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) in agricultural topsoils of the env.2017.10.093 and dryer conditions (Bento et al., 2016)....
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...…determined in the aliquots through HPLC-MS/MS using the same extraction and derivatisationmethod (see the Supporting Information for full details), chemicals, mobile phases, column characteristics and instrumentation conditions as described in Bento et al. (2016) and Yang et al. (2015)....
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...Many farmers also integrated additional herbicides into spray programs [5–7, 89]....
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...and globally [5–10]....
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...Many farmers also integrated additional herbicides into spray programs [5–7, 89]....
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