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Pesticide poisoning in Mexican seasonal farm workers
T J Chain-Castro1, R Barrón-Aragón, L Haro-García
1Calle Jesú Andrade No 1105-6 Sur, Colonia Guadalupe, Culiaćn, 80220, Sinaloa, México.
International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health
|February 23, 1999
Abstract:
The authors investigated pesticide poisoning in 200 seasonal farm workers employed in a small area in northwest Mexico. Of these workers, 45% were migrants from southern Mexico, and 70% were men. Most were about 20 years old; 59% could read at the third-grade level. Few had received information about pesticides; 30% did not wear personal protective gear; and 20% had experienced acute pesticide poisoning at least once during the season investigated.