Health Hazard Evaluation of Methyl Bromide Soil Fumigations

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• Personal Author:
  Gagnon, Yvonne T. ; Lenhart S
• Description:
  Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) officers of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service apply a variety of soil fumigants and post-emergence herbicides in their attempts to eradicate witchweed from the United States. They use methyl bromide to spot fumigate small, isolated areas of soil contaminated by witchweed. Witchweed (Striga asiateca) is a parasitic annual that can severely damage corn, sorghum, sugarcane, dryland rice, and more than 60 other grass species. After its seeds germinate, witchweed penetrates the roots of host plants, robbing them of water and nutrients.(2) Though witchweed is one of the most serious crop pests hindering cereal crop production in Africa, the Middle East, and Far East, eastern parts of North Carolina and South Carolina are the only places in the Western Hemisphere where it has been found. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Herbicides Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Plant-substances Plants Soil-analysis Soil-conditioners Soil-sampling
• ISSN:
  1047-322X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; DPSE - Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  407-412
• Volume:
  14
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025301
• Citation:
  Appl Occup Environ Hyg 1999 Jul; 14(7):407-412
• CAS Registry Number:
  Methyl bromide (CAS RN 74-83-9)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f2b8d4f3ea80fa8762fc805e77429a0cd625d3dadafd32ecb909b192498266a6a52c50cfad0c69d5e2278054c33927d9513c5eb43c60e236c25f40fc254ae182
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/196738/cdc_196738_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 545.33 KB ]