Problem of pesticides in Egypt.

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• Personal Author:
  El-Ghawaby SH ; Sallam M
• Description:
  The problem of pesticide exposure in Egypt was discussed. Agricultural production in Egypt was summarized. Approximately 60 percent of the Egyptian population depends directly or indirectly on production of agricultural products. A national plan has been developed to make Egypt self sufficient in food production and to improve the nutritional status of the population. Because the arable land is confined to the Nile Valley, heavy use is made of pesticides. For example in 1976, 10 percent of the agricultural land was sprayed with pesticides. Problems resulting from pesticide use were discussed. Sporadic deaths stemming from acute exposure to pesticides, especially parathion (56382) and toxaphene (8001352) have been reported since 1962. Thirty percent of these deaths have resulted from careless application. The other deaths resulted from contamination of food. Poisoning incidents involving leptophos (21609905) in 1971 and tamaron (10265926) and gusathion (86500) in 1976 were mentioned. It was noted that morbidity from acute pesticide exposures has been underestimated because patients that are not hospitalized may not be included in the tally of cases. In addition, the death toll due to the pesticides may be inaccurate because some persons may recover from their symptoms and die later of seemingly unrelated causes but that were initiated by the exposure. The problem of chronic exposure to pesticides was discussed. Chronic exposure may result in hepatic damage in humans and the destruction of many useful species of wildlife such as birds, fishes, and bees. The Ministries of Agriculture, Health, and Manpower have undertaken a coordinated program to set acceptable levels of pesticide exposure, to monitor occupational exposures, investigate and evaluate control methods, and to provide information on pesticide hazards to agricultural workers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Environmental Exposure Environmental Pollution Insecticides Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Organophosphates Safety
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Grant; Grants-other; Agricultural-workers; Agricultural-chemicals; Insecticide-poisoning; Work-practices; Occupational-health; Environmental-pollution; Chronic-exposure; Organo-phosphorus-pesticides; Acute-exposure
• Publisher:
  International Association of Agricultural Medicine
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Iowa ; OSHA Region 7 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Utah
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  299-301
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00184071
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the VII International Congress of Rural Medicine, September 17-21, Salt Lake City, Utah. International Association of Agricultural Medicine, 1978 Sep; :299-301
• Contact Point Address:
  Prev Med & Environmental Hlth University of Iowa Inst/agric Med & Environ Hlth Iowa Oakdale, Iowa 52319
• CAS Registry Number:
  Azinphos-methyl (CAS RN 86-50-0) ; Leptophos (CAS RN 21609-90-5) ; Methamidophos (CAS RN 10265-92-6) ; Parathion (CAS RN 56-38-2) ; Toxaphene (CAS RN 8001-35-2)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1978
• NORA Priority Area:
  Other Occupational Concerns ; Grants Other
• Performing Organization:
  University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19770201
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the VII International Congress of Rural Medicine, September 17-21, Salt Lake City, Utah
• End Date:
  19800229
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/242681/cdc_242681_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]