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Pesticide poisoning is an important occupational health issue because pesticides are used in a large number of industries, which puts many different categories of workers at risk. Extensive use puts agricultural workers in particular at increased risk for pesticide illnesses.
The EPA's Agriculture Worker Protection Standard (WPS) attempts to help workers exposed to pesticides and aims to reduce the risk involved with exposure to pesticides. The WPS gives protections to over 2 million agricultural workers and pesticide handlers; its services include preventing workers from being in areas under a restricted-entry ...
Exposure to pesticides can occur at any point of contact, from the process of making pesticides to use in agricultural tasks like harvesting crops or irrigating fields. [13] Agricultural workers are at an exceptionally high risk of pesticide poisoning due to their high exposure rates. [ 14 ]
A 2022 meta-analysis found workers exposed to pesticides were nearly five times as likely to have DNA damage while a February study found children exposed at an early age showed poorer ...
While farm workers and others who work with or near pesticides are at highest risk, pesticide exposure is widespread. Over 90% of the US population has detectable amounts of pesticide in their ...
A lawsuit filed March 29, 2024 in Monterey Superior Court against the California DPR and the Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner by Earthjustice on behalf of the Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers, Safe Ag Safe Schools, Center for Farmworker Families, Monterey Bay Central Labor Council and Californians for Pesticide Reform alleged that ...
Environmental pesticide exposure due to industrial agriculture potentially increases cancer risk to a degree similar to smoking. In a new study, researchers correlated cancer rates in geographic ...
High pesticide exposure is associates with neurologic, neuropsychiatric, and neurodegenerative disorders among agricultural workers who apply the pesticides. [23] [21] The reported disorders are: ADHD, depression, anxiety, dizziness, headaches and olfactory impairment (which was used as an early indicator for neurodegenerative disorders). [23]