Screening potential toxicity of currently used herbicides in the freshwater amphipod Gammarus fossarum based on multi-level biomarker responses to field-realistic exposures.

Herbicides are widely used to control weeds and maximize crop growth. Because of agricultural runoff, these chemicals are potentially hazardous to aquatic wildlife. However, their ecotoxicity and resulting disturbance in individual performance remain scarcely documented in freshwater crustaceans.

[Morbidity and mortality from acute drug poisoning in France].

In France, drugs are responsible for 40% of accidental poisonings in children and 80% of voluntary poisonings in adults. The annual incidence voluntary drug poisonings is evaluated at 4 per 1000 individuals. Their morbidity and severity have decreased considerably during the past 25 years.