Occupational behaviors and farmworkers' pesticide exposure: Findings from a study in monterey county, California

Salvatore, Alicia L.; Bradman, Asa; Castorina, Rosemary; Camacho, José; López, Jesús; Barr, Dana Boyd; Snyder, John C.; Jewell, Nicholas P.; Eskenazi, Brenda

doi:10.1002/ajim.20622

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“…Unsafe behaviors reported in literature include storing agricultural pesticides, contaminated clothing, and shoes inside the home (Curwin et al, 2002), storing pesticides near to food and household items (Kachaiyaphum et al, 2010), washing PPC along with family clothes in the same washing machine (Salvatore et al, 2008), and unsafe disposing of pesticide containers (Ibitayo, 2006).…”

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“…Similarly, a significant number of Greek farmers (46%) did not use any protective equipment when spraying pesticides (Damalas et al, 2006). Further unsafe behaviors were also reported including storing agricultural pesticides, contaminated clothing, and shoes inside the home (Curwin, Sanderson, Reynolds, Hein, & Alavanja, 2002), storing pesticides in close proximity to food and household items (Kachaiyaphum, Howteerakul, Sujirarat, Siri, & Suwannapong, 2010), washing PPC along with family clothes in the same washing machine (Salvatore et al, 2008), and unsafe disposing of pesticide containers (Ibitayo, 2006). As noted above, these unsafe practices might stem from farmers" lack of knowledge and/or understanding of safe application of pesticides.…”

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“…Turkey"s Ministry of Food Agriculture and Livestock has collaborated with the European Crop Protection Association in developing guidelines, manuals, videos, and trainings for pesticide applicators (http://www.ppe-info.eu/tr). Using PPE is one method to decrease pesticide exposure (Damalas, Georgiou, & Theodorou, 2006;Salvatore et al, 2008). Unfortunately, research in this area concludes that farmers work with minimal protection.…”

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Pesticide Knowledge, Attitudes, and Clothing Practices of Turkish Farmers

Derafshi

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Agnew

2017

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The purpose of this study was to assess Turkish farmers" knowledge, attitudes, and clothing practices during pesticide activities. Seventy male farmers from seven districts of the Aegean region of Turkey were interviewed. Farmers indicated a high level of knowledge of adverse health effects associated with pesticides. In contrast to their level of knowledge, over 50% of the farmers had the attitude that pesticides would not be harmful to them. The type of clothing most often worn further supported the farmers" attitudes: T-shirts or long-sleeve shirts, denim pants, leather shoes, or sandals, all of which provide little protection. Therefore, farmers" knowledge on the harmful effects of pesticides did not correlate with their clothing practices. Additionally, farmers" attitudes and clothing practices were inconsistent with each other. A weak but significant correlation between attitudes and clothing practices with a negative direction also supported this. Furthermore, participant farmers indicated bringing contaminated clothing inside the home and laundering contaminated work clothes with Environmental Management and Sustainable Development ISSN 2164-7682 2017 http://emsd.macrothink.org 150 regular family clothes, potentially exposing family members by take-home contamination. These findings suggest that the development of training programs to reduce pesticide exposure would benefit Turkish farmers.

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Pesticide Knowledge, Attitudes, and Clothing Practices of Turkish Farmers

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2017

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“…The excess use of pesticides coupled with inadequate personal protection, is likely to increase the exposure dose among sprayers in the area [27]. Despite the contribution of these pesticides in improving agricultural production and protection of the harvests, they threaten the human health as a result of poor protection and indiscriminate use and handling [28].…”

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Self-reported Health Effects among Short and Long-term Pesticide Sprayers in Arusha, Northern Tanzania: A cross Sectional Study

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There is also circumstantial evidence on the association of exposure to pesticides with chronic diseases like respiratory problems, dermal disorders, cardiovascular disease, nephropathies, chronic fatigue syndrome and aging [1]. Since health-workers are not adequately trained to identify adverse effects of pesticides [22,23] and because of the Abstract Background: The aim of the present study was to assess whether long-term exposure to pesticides is associated with adverse health effects in professional pesticide sprayers. Methods:The study was conducted in Lake Eyasi Basin and Ngarenanyuki in Arusha region, during the dry season in September-October 2013. In a cross-sectional study, 97 short-term exposed men with at most three months as professional sprayers were compared with 60 long-term exposed men with experience of at least five years as professional sprayers. The study participants were aged 18-30 years, drawn from the same source population and interviewed using semi structured questionnaire. The questions focused on spraying procedures and on present and recurrent medical history including presence of selected six known pesticide induced health conditions. Results:Organophosphates, carbamates, dithiocarbamates and pyrethroids were the most applied insecticides but also organochlorine fungicides and endosulfan were frequently applied. The majority of the sprayers reported unsafe pesticide use. Mean pesticide uses in litres, spray frequency per crop and per week were 637, and 1.3 respectively for about 270 days a year. Respiratory disease symptoms were the most frequently reported (46/157; 29.3%) followed by skin (27/157; 17.2%), and sight (24/157; 15.3%). When adjusted for age and other predictors, long-term exposed sprayers had significantly higher self-reported occurrences of peripheral neuropathy (OR=7.7, CI95%: 1.045-56.728, p=0.045) and respiratory disorders (OR=0.2, CI95%: 0.067-0.501, p=0.001) compared with short-term exposed. Furthermore, 10 sprayers, all long-term exposed reported poor libido and erection problems. Conclusions: These findings document lack of safety knowledge, safe pesticide management and the implementation of protective measures as well as suggesting that long-term exposure to pesticides increase the risk of experience disease conditions compared to short-term exposure.

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“…Pesticides in particular present a great hazard to farmworkers because of their widespread use and inherent toxicity. Not only are farmworkers exposed to pesticides while working in Thompson et al 2003, Coronado et al 2006, Quandt et al 2004, Salvatore et al 2008). a Less than high school.…”

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