Occupational Pesticide Exposures and Respiratory Health
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Occupational Pesticide Exposures and Respiratory Health
Pesticides have been widely used to control pest and pest-related diseases in agriculture, fishery, forestry and the food industry. In this review, we identify a number of respiratory symptoms and diseases that have been associated with occupational pesticide exposures. Impaired lung function has also been observed among people occupationally exposed to pesticides. There was strong evidence for...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1660-4601
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph10126442