Captan exposure and evaluation of a pesticide exposure algorithm among orchard pesticide applicators in the agricultural health study

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 153-166

  Hines, Cynthia J ^a   Deddens, James A ^a,b   Jaycox, Larry B ^a   Andrews, Ronnee N ^a   Striley, Cynthia A F ^a   Alavanja, Michael C R ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Benomyl; Captan; Exposure assessment; Fungicide; Occupational; Orchard; Pesticide; Thiophanate methyl

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BODY FLUIDS; ESTIMATION; EXPLOSIVES; FARMS; FOOD PROCESSING; FUNGICIDES; MATERIALS HANDLING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; ORCHARDS; PESTICIDES; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPRAYING;

AGRICULTURAL HEALTH; AGRICULTURE; AIR BLASTING; ANALYTE DETECTION; BENOMYL; CAPTAN; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; EXPOSURE DATA; EXPOSURE METRICS; FUNGICIDE; GEOMETRIC MEAN; LACK-OF-FIT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODEL; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL; ORCHARD; PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE APPLICATORS; PESTICIDE EXPOSURE; SPRAY APPLICATION; THIOPHANATE-METHYL; URINE SAMPLES;

APPLICATORS;

1,2,3,6 TETRAHYDROPHTHALIMIDE; CAPTAN; PESTICIDE; PHTHALIMIDE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGICIDE;

AEROSOL; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AIR; ALGORITHM; APPLE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; ORCHARD; PEACH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; URINALYSIS; AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRUIT; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; CAPTAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FRUIT; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 44949231553     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: 14753162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/men001     Document Type: Article

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