Pesticide Exposure Pathways in Agricultural Communities

This sub-project was housed under another program, The Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research, which worked to understand the mechanisms that define children’s susceptibility to pesticides. Center researchers, including some that also worked at PNASH led field studies with a farmworker community to bring a unique and successful approach to the study of children’s environmental health. This center was funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and NIEHS.

Children of agricultural producers and workers can be exposed to pesticides and other agricultural chemicals if workplace chemicals are inadvertently brought into their homes. The purpose of this research is to prevent or reduce take-home pesticide exposure among agricultural workers and their families in Northwest farming communities. This project contributed to new methods for the characterization of the take-home exposure pathway, and for interventions to reduce children’s exposures to pesticides.

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