Trial reportJournal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology2009
Community-based intervention to reduce pesticide exposure to farmworkers and potential take-home exposure to their families.
Trial report in Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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38 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 87 citations in OpenAlex.
- Neurobehavioral, Neuromotor, and Neurocognitive Effects in Agricultural Workers and Their Children Exposed to Pyrethroid Pesticides: A Review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Pooled it
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- Educational interventions for preventing lead poisoning in workers.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Systematic Literature Review of the Take-Home Route of Pesticide Exposure via Biomonitoring and Environmental Monitoring.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
- Home-based community health worker intervention to reduce pesticide exposures to farmworkers' children: A randomized-controlled trial.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiologyTrial
- Federal Protections for Farmworker Health in the United States: A Scoping Review of Three Decades of Research.American journal of industrial medicine · 2026Review
- Sex and adrenal hormone alteration in Ecuadorian adolescents with home and school proximity to floriculture crop area.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2026Article
- Residential proximity to agricultural pesticide use and cardiovascular disease risk factors among adult Latina women in California's Salinas Valley.American journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- The Michigan Farmworker Project: Development and Implementation of a Collaborative Community-Based Research Project Assessing Precarious Employment and Labor Exploitation.Journal of community engagement and scholarship · 2022Article
- Commentary: Highlighting the need for pesticides safety training in Nigeria: A survey of farm households in Rivers State.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Whose Jurisdiction Is Home Contamination? Para-Occupational 'Take-Home' Herbicide Residue Exposure Risks among Forestry Workers' Families in South Africa.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- COVID-19 and children's health in the United States: Consideration of physical and social environments during the pandemic.Environmental research · 2021Review
- Environmental Health Threats to Latino Migrant Farmworkers.Annual review of public health · 2021Article
- Daylight-activated fumigant detoxifying nanofibrous membrane based on thiol-ene click chemistry.Journal of hazardous materials · 2021Article
- Eliminating Take-Home Exposures: Recognizing the Role of Occupational Health and Safety in Broader Community Health.Annals of work exposures and health · 2020Review
- Pesticide application, educational treatment and infectious respiratory diseases: A mechanistic model with two impulsive controls.PloS one · 2020Article
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- An educational intervention on the risk perception of pesticides exposure and organophosphate metabolites urinary concentrations in rural school children in Maule Region, Chile.Environmental research · 2019Article
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- Application of improved approach to evaluate a community intervention to reduce exposure of young children living in farmworker households to organophosphate pesticides.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2019Article
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10 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The US EPA Worker Protection Standard requires pesticide safety training for farmworkers. Combined with re-entry intervals, these regulations are designed to reduce pesticide exposure. Little research has been conducted on whether additional steps may reduce farmworker exposure and the potential for take-home exposure to their families. We conducted an intervention with 44 strawberry harvesters (15 control and 29 intervention group members) to determine whether education, encouragement of handwashing, and the use of gloves and removable coveralls reduced exposure. Post-intervention, we collected foliage and urine samples, as well as hand rinse, lower-leg skin patch, and clothing patch samples. Post-intervention loading of malathion on hands was lower among workers who wore gloves compared to those who did not (median=8.2 vs. 777.2 microg per pair, respectively (P<0.001)); similarly, median MDA levels in urine were lower among workers who wore gloves (45.3 vs. 131.2 microg/g creatinine, P<0.05). Malathion was detected on clothing (median=0.13 microg/cm(2)), but not on skin. Workers who ate strawberries had higher malathion dicarboxylic acid levels in urine (median=114.5 vs. 39.4 microg/g creatinine, P<0.01). These findings suggest that wearing gloves reduces pesticide exposure to workers contacting strawberry foliage containing dislodgeable residues. Additionally, wearing gloves and removing work clothes before returning home could reduce transport of pesticides to worker homes. Behavioral interventions are needed to reduce consumption of strawberries in the field.
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