Hidden Farmworker Labor Camps in North Carolina: An Indicator of Structural Vulnerability

Something for everyone? A community and academic partnership to address farmworker pesticide exposure in North Carolina.

Partnerships between academic researchers and community organizations are frequently formed to address environmental health concerns in underserved communities. Although such participatory approaches to research combine valuable assets of both partners, they are often difficult to maintain. We describe a partnership formed to investigate migrant and seasonal farmworker exposure to pesticides in...

Agricultural and residential pesticides in wipe samples from farmworker family residences in North Carolina and Virginia.

Children of farmworkers can be exposed to pesticides through multiple pathways, including agricultural take-home and drift as well as residential applications. Because farmworker families often live in poor-quality housing, the exposure from residential pesticide use may be substantial. We measured eight locally reported agricultural pesticides and 13 pesticides commonly found in U.S. houses in...

Pesticide Urinary Metabolite Levels of Children in Eastern North Carolina Farmworker Households

BACKGROUND In this investigation we documented the pesticide urinary metabolite levels of farmworker children in North Carolina, determined the number of different metabolites detected for each child, and delineated risk factors associated with the number of metabolites. METHODS Urine samples were collected from 60 Latino farmworker children 1-6 years of age (34 female, 26 male). Interviews w...

Labor Camps in the Gulf States

Sterilization in North Carolina