Human health and ecological risk assessment of pesticides from rice production in the Babol Roud River in Northern Iran

Increasing agricultural activities result in increasing use of different pesticides in order to protect the products, but this is happening without paying attention to the consequences of the daily increase of using pesticides. Pesticides could affect human health and the environment at the same time. In this study three pesticides (diazinon, carbaryl and butachlor), which are used in rice production, were measured in the Babol Roud River …