A Comparative Study of Pesticide Exposures in Adults and Youth Migrant Field Workers
- 1 July 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Archives of environmental health
- Vol. 40 (4) , 215-220
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00039896.1985.10545921
Abstract
To study possible differences between pesticide exposures received by youth (subjects < 16 yr of age) and adults (subjects > 16 yr of age), human exposure samples (gloves and urine) were collected during the onion harvesting season of 1982. Environmental samples (soil, foliage, and field air) were also collected during the study period. All samples were analyzed for toxaphene, ethyl parathion, methyl parathion, and malathion. Environmental samples were found to have very low levels of these insecticides. The youth cohort had lower residue values than did the adults, and these differences were statistically significant (P < .05) for toxaphene residues on gloves on each sampling day, and for ethyl parathion residues on gloves on one sampling day only. Detectable levels of dialkyl phosphates were found in only 2 of 44 urine samples.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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