Farm workers are being sickened by agrochemicals—and, due to extreme heat, by the PPE they wear to protect themselves. Harrison Watson August 15, 2023 Every year, pesticides sicken 300,000 farm ...

Personal protective equipment, or PPE, is necessary to protect farmers and other agricultural workers from pesticides, grain dust, mold, and other hazards. The COVID-19 global pandemic, however, ha… ...

A tractor sprays pesticides on a Lousiana cotton field. Many farm workers and others rely on N95 masks to protect them from exposure to pesticides and herbicides, which often pose serious health ...

3M, a major PPE manufacturer, is making N95 respirators “at a rate of nearly 50 million per month in the U.S., with the majority going to health care and public health workers,” and the rest ...

As some pesticides are endocrine disruptors, a common pathway for this disruption is their impact on melatonin, the sleep hormone, and cortisol, a stress hormone, that work together to control the ...

While Spanish is the dominant language for 62 percent of farmworkers in the U.S., pesticide labels are typically only printed in English. “We’ve been fighting for bilingual pesticide labels for 15 or ...

On May 28, 2019, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) ... Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Requirements, regulated under 3 C.C.R. § 6738.

Supervision of General Use Pesticide (GUP) Applicators: Commercial applicators using GUPs will still be required to be fully certified. ... paper or e-labels, label-required PPE/equipment/training, ...

(Beyond Pesticides, September 19, 2024) An article published in the journal Science of the Total Environment finds that the European Union’s (EU) risk assessment process, required for registration, ...

Personal protective equipment, or PPE, may be in short supply, regionally or nationally, in the 2020 growing season. Members of the American Association of Pesticide Safety Educators are raising ...

California launched a new statewide online pesticide notification system this week that will warn farmworkers beforehand of upcoming pesticide applications. The California Department of Pesticide ...