Pesticide potential dermal exposure during the manipulation of concentrated mixtures at small horticultural and floricultural production units in Argentina: The formulation effect

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 472, Issue , 2014, Pages 509-516

  Berenstein, Giselle A ^a   Hughes, Enrique A ^a   March, Hugo ^b   Rojic, Guillermo ^b   Zalts, Anita ^a   Montserrat, Javier M ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS   (Argentina)

^b Agrofina SA   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Floriculture; Horticulture; Margin of Safety (MOS); Mix and load; Potential Manual Exposure (PME)

Indexed keywords

CONTAINERS; PESTICIDES;

FLORICULTURE; HORTICULTURE; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LIQUID FORMULATIONS; MARGIN OF SAFETY; POTENTIAL DERMAL EXPOSURES; POTENTIAL MANUAL EXPOSURE (PME);

LIQUIDS;

ALUMINUM; CAPTAN; CHLOROTHALONIL; CHLORPYRIFOS; DELTAMETHRIN; ENDOSULFAN; PESTICIDE; PROCYMIDONE;

HORTICULTURE; LABORATORY METHOD; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SAFETY; SKIN;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLORICULTURE; FORMULATION EFFECT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; OPERATOR; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POWDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN;

ARGENTINA;

FLORICULTURE; HORTICULTURE; MARGIN OF SAFETY (MOS); MIX AND LOAD; POTENTIAL MANUAL EXPOSURE (PME);

AGRICULTURE; ARGENTINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES;

EID: 84889674906     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.071     Document Type: Article

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