Effect of Glyphosate Herbicide on Environmental Health

DOI

10.2991/ahsr.k.200612.012How to use a DOI?

Keywords

glyphosate, health, environment

Abstract

One of the active ingredients of herbicide is Glyphosate (N- (phosphonomethyl) glycine) which is widely used in plantation land. Herbicide residues will accumulate in agricultural products, pollution in the environment (water, air and soil), poisoning in humans both acute and chronic that have an impact on death. Glyphosate was found in the 10-20 cm layer after 1 day of application for up to 2 weeks, glyphosate was found in the 0-10 cm layer. The quality standard of glyphosate concentration in the soil was 22 mg / kg. Water glyphosate was absorbed by particles and sediments; (half-life) is estimated to be between 2-820 years depending on sunlight and water depth, Glyphosate lost from fresh water after 36 hours by 50% and 100% after 4 weeks; in sea water lost after 24 hours by 50-70%. Glyphosate in air has a vapor pressure of 1.31 x 10-5 Pa at 25oC (98.6%), in the form of particulates and the vapor phase is partially removed from the air by rain. The glyphosate threshold value in the air is 0.5 mg / m3.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Akhmad Dwi Priyanto
AU  - Daniel Saputra
AU  - Fuad Abd. Rachman
AU  - Rico Januar Sitorus
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/06/19
TI  - Effect of Glyphosate Herbicide on Environmental Health
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Sriwijaya International Conference of Public Health (SICPH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 95
EP  - 100
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200612.012
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200612.012
ID  - Priyanto2020
ER  -