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Factors affecting farmworkers' injuries due to use of pesticides in the United States and their relation to reentry time intervals

Creator:

Nemati, Gholam Reza

Abstract:

More than 2.3 billion pounds of pesticides with a value of $4.1 billions are applied by farmworkers to agricultural crops each year. These chemicals applied to farm lands lead not only to acute and chronic health effects, they also enter the groundwater and food chain of populations. In recent years...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

pesticides in the United States and their relation to reentry time intervals AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF