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Pesticide
poisoning
Pesticide poisonings, some resulting in death, have become a serious
public health problem, requiring intervention across a number of
different areas. On the one hand, samples collected from actual
users in the countryside, hospital records, programmes for recognition
and treatment of poisoning from exposure to pesticides, provide
crucial information about the dangers caused by pesticide use in
the field
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On the other hand, good surveillance of pesticide poisoning cases
can provide an excellent basis on which to take policy decisions
and to draw up control measures concerning the use of pesticides
in Brazil. The information thus assembled is also invaluable for
assessing the efficacy of the registration system and of the surveillance
programmes as such.
In the light of the above, it is obvious that laboratories are needed
to carry out diagnoses of pesticide cases, by means of analysis
of contaminants and of indicators of contamination.
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