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Exposure Assessment

Taking Exposure Histories

Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings - Produced by EPA. The manual provides an exposure history questionnaire and cursory screening questions.

Case Studies in Environmental Medicine. No. 26. Taking an Exposure History - Produced by ATSDR. Provides examples of case histories and suggested patient dialogues. Includes an exposure history form. (All ATSDR Case Studies are currently undergoing revision. They will be made available on-line when revisions are completed.)

Developing a Pesticide Exposure History - Produced by the University of Maryland Pesticide Education and Assessment Program. Provides guidance on taking exposure histories for both occupational and incidental pesticide exposures. Pesticide Information Leaflet No. 25. Pesticide Education and Assessment Program, Univ. of Maryland.

 

Contacts for Information about Pesticide Applications
and Exposure Scenarios

County Cooperative Extension Service - Listed in the blue pages of the telephone book. County Extension personnel can help determine what might have been applied to a particular crop, and what activities might have taken place through which workers or others may have been exposed.

USDA Crop Profiles - This USDA Web page Provides information about pesticides used on a particular crop in a specific state in the United States.