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- Title
Prevention Pays for Farmworkers.
- Authors
Tillett, Tanya
- Abstract
The article reports that the University of California, Berkeley, Center for Children's Environmental Health Research joined with community partners Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas, the California Rural Legal Assistance Program, and the Central Coast Grower--Shipper Association to conduct a study on ways to reduce risk to farmworkers who are exposed to pesticides in the fields and may take the chemicals home on their skin and clothing. The partnership, through its Center for Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas (CHAMACOS), recruited study participants working at two Monterey County strawberry farms during the summer of 2003. Research included preventive measures to decrease direct exposure to malathion (a pesticide commonly used in strawberry fields).
- Subjects
MONTEREY County (Calif.); SPRAYING &; dusting in agriculture; MALATHION; ENVIRONMENTAL health; HAZARDOUS substances; PESTICIDES; FARM research; CALIFORNIA Rural Legal Assistance Inc.; STRAWBERRY industry
- Publication
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2007, Vol 115, Issue 1, pA28
- ISSN
0091-6765
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1289/ehp.115-a28