Recommended health-based limits in occupational exposure to pesticides

Book : Recommended health-based limits in occupational exposure to pesticides

Language : English

Library : Health-Safety-Environment

Publish Place : Switzerland

ISBN : 92 4 120677 2

Volume : 677

Publish Date : January 1982

Publisher : World Health Organization WHO

Book Type : Report

Book Number : 2067

INDEX

CONTENTS
1. Introduction
1.1 Purpose of the report
1.2 Procedures for establishing occupational exposure limits
1.3 Evaluation of studies and development of recommendations
1.4 Exposure-effect and exposure-response relationships
1.5 Conversion factors
1.6 Re-evaluation of recommended health-based exposure limits References
2. Malathion
2.1 Properties, uses, health hazards
2.2 Metabolism
2.3 Assessment of exposure
2.4 Health effects
2.5 Relationship between exposure and effect
2.6 Conclusions regarding health-based occupational exposure limits .
2.7 Recommendations
2.8 Research possibilities
References
3. Carbaryl
3.1 Properties, uses, health hazards
3.2 Metabolism
3.3 Assessment of exposure
3.4 Health effects
3.5 Relationship between exposure and effect
3.6 Conclusions regarding health-based occupational exposure limits .
3.7 Recommendations
3.8 Research possibilities
References
4. Lindane
4.1 Properties, uses, health hazards
4.2 Metabolism
4.3 Assessment of exposure
4.4 Health effects
4.5 Relationship between exposure and effect
4.6 Conclusions regarding health-based occupational exposure limits
4.7 Recommendations
4.8 Research possibilities
References
5. Dinitro-o-cresol
5.1 Properties, uses, health hazards
5.2 Metabolism
5.3 Assessment of exposure
5.4 Health effects
5.5 Relationship between exposure and effect
5.6 Conclusions regarding health-based occupational exposure limits

5.7 Recommendations
5.8 Research possibilities References
6. General recommendations for pesticide research
6.1 Occupational health of workers in the agricultural sector
6.2 Need for valid epidemiological studies
6.3 Need for animal experimental data
6.4 Metabolic studies
6.5 Medical surveillance and record-keeping
6.6 The safe use of pesticides in developing countries
Acknowledgements