Farmworker Pesticide Project
MCN WEBINAR: Pesticide Poisonings. Are you prepared? (Feb 2014)
DATE RECORDED: Wednesday, February 19, 2014
PRESENTED BY: Matthew Keifer, MD, MPH, Dean Emanuel Endowed Chair/Director National Farm Medicine Center
PAN Pesticide Data Base
Pesticide Action Network of North America
Poison Control Center
Reporting Pesticides in California
Reporting Pesticides in North Carolina
Acute Occupational Pesticide- Related Illness in the US 1998-1999: Surveillance Findings From the SENSOR-Pesticides Program
Concern about the adverse public health and environmental effects of pesticide use is persistent. Recognizing the importance of surveillance for acute occupational pesticide-related illness, we report on surveillance for this condition across multiple states. Between 1998 and 1999, a total of 1,009 individuals with acute occupational pesticide-related illness were identified by states participating in the SENSOR-pesticides program.
Acute Pesticide- Related Illness Among Working Youths, 1988-1999
The goal of this study was to describe acute occupational pesticide-related illnesses among youths and to provide prevention recommendations. Survey data from 8 states and from poison control center data were analyzed.