Pesticides A Toxic Time Bomb in Our Midst

Poor Enforcement Reentry intervals are intended to prevent farmers and farm labor contractors from sending harvest workers into ...

Thirty workers were transported immediately to a medical clinic; the other four went home, showered, and sought medical care thr ...

Farm operators and family members are exempt from most federal safety laws and regulations. However, raising the awareness of fa ...

Ironically, the original sludge is created as part of a water pollution control process to prevent waste chemicals from entering ...

health worker specializing in one of the following areas: family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, ...

interest (e.g., pesticide intoxication and heat stress in agricultural field workers). Few primary care providers ask patients t ...

occurred in agricultural work (or from any other occupation). In addition, some poison control centers do not report to the nati ...

actually reveal how well the environment is doing, or how well the regulated commu- nity is obeying environmental laws. To the e ...

In another case of organophosphate poisoning, a group of thirty infants and chil- dren was poisoned by organophosphates and carb ...

scope and cover greater portions of the farmworker population. Likewise, insufficient funding prevents the development of new da ...

which is lowered by OPs and CBs. Follow-up blood tests were conducted during spray season. When cholinesterase levels declined b ...

or toxic if absorbed in excessive amounts. Pesticides can cause skin or eye damage (topical effects) and also induce allergic re ...

from 50 to 500 mg/kg. Exposure to just one teaspoon to one ounce could be fatal to a 150-pound person. Pesticide products classi ...

pests will survive. As a result, the proportion of resistant individuals in the population increases. Repeated selection of resi ...

Underreporting of Illnesses and Injuries Mild signs of acute pesticide poisoning, such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or wheezin ...

would be expected for highly exposed subpopulations of young people, especially farm children. Some studies did look at the chil ...

work is washed in the same machine as other laundry. Direct exposure opportunities also occur; for example, 51 percent of wives ...

and beliefs into consideration. Research delineates several major themes that reflect farmworkers’ assumptions about pesticide e ...

Another study reinforced the findings of the above investigation. Of 460 hired farmworkers in Washington state who were intervie ...

¥‘‘I personally feel that there is too much blame on the farmers who try to do everything they can do to be safe with their own ...