Linkage of the California Pesticide Use Reporting Database with spatial land use data for exposure assessment

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 684-689

  Nuckols, John R ^a   Gunier, Robert B ^b   Riggs, Philip ^a   Miller, Ryan ^c   Reynolds, Peggy ^b   Ward, Mary H ^d  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural land use; California; Exposure assessment; GIS; Pesticide use reporting

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; DICOFOL; INSECTICIDE; METHYL BROMIDE; PESTICIDE; SIMAZINE; TRIFLURALIN;

ARTICLE; CROP; DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LAND USE; METRIC SYSTEM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; CALIFORNIA; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; PESTICIDES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34249090274     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9518     Document Type: Article

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