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NUI Galway is looking for 50 farming families and 50 non-farming families to take part in a new study on glyphosate.
The study will look at the background levels of exposure to glyphosate among families.
The NUI Galway researchers with collaborators from the Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine in Bochum, Germany will collect and analyse urine samples from 50 non-farming families and 50 farming families for glyphosate and its main metabolite Aminomethylphosphonic acid.
Each family will be asked to produce one urine sample each (two parents and one child aged between six and 17 years) and complete a questionnaire from each participant.
Glyphosate is the active ingredient in over 750 products including Roundup.
Four-year study
This new research fellowship follows on from a four-year study that identified low levels of pesticide exposures among professional gardeners and amenity horticultural workers in Ireland, led by exposure science lecturer Dr Marie Coggins and Dr Alison Connolly from the school of physics at NUI Galway.
Post-doctoral scientist, Dr Alison Connolly, was awarded the research fellowship to conduct this new study, the IMAGE project: "Ireland’s bioMonitoring Assessment of Glyphosate Exposures"- an environmental assessment of exposures to glyphosate among the Irish population using a human biomonitoring sampling strategy.
To participate in the project, contact Dr Alison Connolly at alison.connolly@nuigalway.ie.
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