Exposure to insecticides in the use of cold fog generators in greenhouses
- 1 December 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry
- Vol. 57 (1) , 213-224
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02772249609358389
Abstract
The exposure of greenhouse workers to deltamethrin and dichlorvos was studied when low‐volume misters (LVM) were used for the application of these insecticides. Exposure to deltamethrin was mainly by skin contamination and the level of exposure was low. Exposure to dichlorvos was clearly higher than to deltamethrin both through skin and inhalation. These two insecticides are different from chemical structure and character dichlorvos being a highly volatile chemical. The re‐entry period for deltamethrin was calculated to be about ten hours and for dichlorvos two or three days.Keywords
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