A Story of Impact: NIOSH Pesticide Poisoning Monitoring Program Protects Farmworkers

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• Alternative Title:
  NIOSH pesticide poisoning monitoring program protects farmworkers ; r2p
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  "In 2005, three migrant farmworkers living in the same region of Florida gave birth to infants with birth defects within eight weeks of each other. Though suspected, the possibility of workplace pesticide exposure during the maximum sensitivity period of their pregnancies was not initially confirmed because one of the three women had not been working in Florida during this period. The SENSOR-Pesticides Program facilitated collaboration between states that revealed that the three mothers worked for the same tomato grower during their maximum sensitivity periods - two at the grower's Florida operations and one in North Carolina. Thorough investigation was not able to establish a causal link between the mothers' possible workplace pesticide exposure and their infants' birth defects. However, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services inspected the tomato grower's farms and found several pesticide and record keeping violations. Later, North Carolina created a taskforce whose findings motivated the state legislature to pass anti-retaliation and recordkeeping laws, training mandates to protect the health of agricultural workers, and funding for improved surveillance. The Florida state legislature provided funding to add ten new pesticide inspectors." - NIOSHTIC-2
  
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• Subjects:
  Abnormalities, Drug-Induced Agricultural Workers' Diseases/chemically Induced Enivronmental Monitoring Occupational Exposure Pesticides/adverse Effects Population Surveillance
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  print; [2] p. : col. ill. ; 14 x 22 cm.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20040036
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8aa2c4f84f9723f05a1df2c431b56f3cdddc75e5747620c04c29c86966adefd0e3af35fb2dfd89fa8fd479a2bb21764847270c0da63138888bb5e2c171a8be1a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/11655/cdc_11655_DS1.pdf
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