Agricultural task and exposure to organophosphate pesticides among farmworkers

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 142-147

  Coronado, Gloria D ^a,c   Thompson, Beti ^a   Strong, Larkin ^a   Griffith, William C ^b   Islas, Ilda ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Applicators; Farmworker; Field worker; Job task; Occupational exposure; Pesticide

Indexed keywords

AZINPHOS METHYL; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HARVESTING; HOUSE DUST; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE PRUNING; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 1042280912     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6412     Document Type: Article

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