Efficiency of safety measures applied to a manual knapsack sprayer for paraquat application to Maize (Zea mays L.)

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 698-701

  Machado Neto, J G ^a   Matuo, T ^a   Matuo, Y K ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAQUAT;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SKIN PENETRATION;

AGRICULTURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARAQUAT; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SAFETY;

EID: 0031791585     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002449900433     Document Type: Article

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