Work-related pesticide-associated illness and injury New Mexico, 2001-2006

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• Personal Author:
  Kesler DO ; Moraga-McHaley S
• Description:
  A pesticide is a substance or mixture of substances that is used to kill, repel, or otherwise control nuisance insects, animals, plants or fungi. As of December 2006, there were 10,342 products with 739 active ingredients registered for pesticide use in New Mexico. Workers in New Mexico are at risk for a variety of acute health effects from pesticides including skin irritation, respiratory effects, and organophosphate poisoning symptoms. Since 2000 New Mexico has had over twice the rate of work-related pesticide illness and injury calls reported to poison centers than the United States as a whole. The New Mexico Occupational Health Registry (NMOHR) receives data from a variety of sources, one of which is the New Mexico Poison and Drug Information Center (NMPDIC). The current report describes an analysis of calls made between January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2006 to the NMPDIC for work-related pesticide-associated illness and injury. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Animals Demography Fungi Insecta Insecticides Irritants Lung Lung Diseases Occupational Health Organophosphates Poisoning Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Skin Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Demographic-characteristics Exposure-levels Insects Organic-chemicals Organic-compounds Organo-phosphorus-compounds Organo-phosphorus-pesticides Pest-control Pesticide-industry Pesticides Pesticides-and-agricultural-chemicals Pests Plants Poisons Pulmonary-disorders Pulmonary-function Pulmonary-system Pulmonary-system-disorders Respiration Respiratory-infections Respiratory-irritants Respiratory-system-disorders Risk-factors Skin-exposure Skin-irritants Sociological-factors Statistical-analysis Work-environment Workers

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• ISSN:
  8750-4642
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New Mexico ; OSHA Region 6
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-4
• Volume:
  2007
• Issue:
  9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042351
• Citation:
  N.M. Epidemiol Rep 2007 Dec; 2007(9):1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• Performing Organization:
  University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  New Mexico Epidemiology Report
• End Date:
  20090630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e6aeae2fd4803bf2ababbe972182524b053824c4870e2de8219f88f0cb5487165ac30c38f7a0b8946602530bf4f9beef35c90ce19fefaae21ae1626d953b2f54
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194595/cdc_194595_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 185.08 KB ]