Pesticide urinary metabolite levels of children in Eastern North Carolina farmworkers households

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1254-1260

  Arcury, Thomas A ^a   Grzywacz, Joseph G ^a   Barr, Dana B ^b   Tapia, Janeth ^c   Chen, Haiying ^a   Quandt, Sara A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c North Carolina Farmworkers Project   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Biomonitoring; Child health; Farmworker; Health disparities; Latino Hispanic; Occupational health; Pesticide exposure; Pesticide metabolites

Indexed keywords

2,3 DIHYDRO 1H IMIDAZO[1,2 B]PYRAZOLE; 2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; 2,4,5 TRICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; ACETOCHLOR; ATRAZINE; BENZOIC ACID; CHLORPYRIFOS; COUMAFOS; DIETHYLTOLUAMIDE; DIMPYLATE; HALOXON; HERBICIDE; MALATHION; METOLACHLOR; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; PARATHION; PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; PYRETHROID; INSECT REPELLENT; INSECTICIDE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD SAFETY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL; AGRICULTURE; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOUSING; INFANT; POLLUTANT; URINE;

AGRICULTURE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HERBICIDES; HOUSING; HUMANS; INFANT; INSECT REPELLENTS; INSECTICIDES; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS;

EID: 34848911636     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9975     Document Type: Article

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