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New ACOG Resource Calls for Clinician Responsibility in Preventing Environmental/Occupational Health Risks for Women
Fri, 11/01/2013 | by Candace Kugel
MCN's Amy K. Liebman talks pesticides on KWMR's Epicenter
MCN's Director of Environmental and Occupational Health, Amy K. Liebman, appeared on the radio broadcast Epicenter: West Marin Issues on KWMR 90.5 FM to talk pesticides and the Worker Protection Standard.
BRIEFING: A Clinician's Call for Safer Farmworkers and Families
Mon, 07/15/2013 | by Edward ZurowesteToday and tomorrow on Capitol Hill, more than a dozen farmworkers from across the nation are meeting with their members of Congress to call for the implementation of stronger protections for farmworkers from pesticides. MCN's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Ed Zuroweste, MD, will join the farmworkers and a coalition of allied groups at a briefing for members of Congress and their staffers about the urgent need for an update to EPA's Worker Protection Standard. Here is the statement he will deliver today at the briefing:
Occupational Health and Safety Virtual Resource Center
Pesticide Safety Project
This website and training material were developed to give communities and promotores ways to help farm workers learn how to protect themselves from pesticide exposure.
The project and all materials on the website were developed by the California Poison Control System in collaboration with the the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety at the University of California, Davis and the California Department of Pesticide Regulation.
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- DPR Facilitator Manual EN ( 5 Mb )
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- DPR Participant Manual EN ( 5 Mb )
CAL POISON: Signs and Symptoms of Pesticide Exposure (VIDEO)
CAL POISON: After work: Staying safe for your family (VIDEO)
CAL POISON: How to be safe from pesticides at work (video)
EPA Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act
The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) provides for federal regulation of pesticide distribution, sale, and use. All pesticides distributed or sold in the United States must be registered (licensed) by EPA. Before EPA may register a pesticide under FIFRA, the applicant must show, among other things, that using the pesticide according to specifications "will not generally cause unreasonable adverse effects on the environment.''
Pesticide Exposure in Children - Technical Report
Evidence is increasingly emerging about chronic health implications from both acute and chronic exposure. A growing body of epidemiological evidence demonstrates associations between parental use of pesticides, particularly insecticides, with acute lymphocytic leukemia and brain tumors. Prenatal, household, and occupational exposures (maternal and paternal) appear to be the largest risks.
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- PestExposureChild Report AAP ( 715 Kb )
