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Environmental and Occupational Health
Bush Campaign to Allow Human Dosing Experiments
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is paying Florida families who "spray or have pesticides sprayed inside your home routinely" to study their infant children.
Carbofuran Pesticide Residues in Food Revoked
EPA has revoked regulations that permitted small residues of the pesticide carbofuran in food.
Clinical Diagnostic Tools and Biomonitoring of Exposures to Pesticides
The importance of clinical diagnostic tools and biomonitoring of exposures to pesticides as well the role of clinicians in pesticide reporting and the challenges clinicians face in accurately diagnosing patients exposed to pesticides are described in a presentation by Matthew Keifer, MD, MPH and Amy K. Liebman, MPA. Click on the link for an APHA policy resolution underscoring the need for clinical diagnostic tools and biomomitoring of exposures to pesticides. This policy supports the information outlined by in the presentation.
Files
- Clinicians Biomonitoring Keifer Liebman 2010.pdfGive Me a Test: I’ll Give You a Diagnosis( 27,177.47 Kb )
Clinical Diagnostic Tools and Biomonitoring of Exposures to Pesticides
The importance of clinical diagnostic tools and biomonitoring of exposures to pesticides as well the roe clinicians in pesticide reporting and the challenges clinicians face in accurately diagnosing patients exposed to pesticides are described in a presentation by Matthew Keifer, MD, MPH and Amy K. Liebman, MPA. An APHA policy resolution underscoring the need for clinical diagnostic tools and biomomitoring of exposures to pesticides supports the information outlined by in the presentation.
Files
- Clinicians Biomonitoring Keifer Liebman 2010.pdfGive Me a Test: I’ll Give You a Diagnosis( 27,177.47 Kb )
Clinician Guides
The following are clinician guides provided by MCN, in collaboration with Farmworker Justice:
A Guide to OSHA’s Field Sanitation Standard;
A Guide to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA);
A Guide to the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA);
A Guide to EPA’s Worker Protection Standard
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- Field San Guide.pdfOSHA's Field Sanitation Guide.pdf( 2,779.09 Kb )
- Fifra Guide.pdf( 2,829.97 Kb )
- Fqpa Guide.pdf( 3,834.79 Kb )
- Wps Guide.pdf( 2,886.32 Kb )
EnviRN Knowledge Network
On line learning resource for nurses concerned about environmental health.
Link
http://envirn.org/
EPA to Strengthen Oversight of Pesticide’s Impact on Children and Farmworkers
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to strengthen its assessment of pesticide health risks. EPA’s proposal would include a more thorough assessment of risks to workers, including farmworkers and farm children, as well as risks posed by pesticides that are not used on food. The agency is asking the public to comment on the new approach and how best to implement the improvements.
More information on the proposed rule: http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/health/worker-rsk-assmnt.html
Florida/Pesticide 1 Palm Beach Post 2005
Since many exposures come during those field applications, the risks - to farmworkers and to nearby residents who can be affected if the chemicals drift - can occur much more frequently. "You are working in one field, and the tractor passes in the next field spraying," says Epifanio, 58, a veteran Mexican farmworker who asked that his full name not be used, out of fear for his job. "The wind brings it to you. It happens to somebody around here every single day."
Files
- Florida Pesticide 1.pdf( 211.01 Kb )
Florida/Pesticide 2 Palm Beach Post 2005
Probe of ill workers cited to expose flaws, Farmworker advocates say the state mishandled a case in which 20 migrants were sickened.
Files
- Florida Pesticide 2.pdf( 199.47 Kb )
Florida/Pesticide 3 Palm Beach Post 2005
Maria Fernandez, 42, of Cancun, Mexico, sits outside a shoddy trailer she shares with other workers. "Everybody around here always has headaches, coughs, running noses," she said. "It has to do with that dust on the plants from the chemicals. You are always breathing it in."
Files
- Florida Pesticide 3.pdf( 130.55 Kb )
