一系列新的担忧：国会对农药安全性展开调查。
A new crop of concerns: Congress investigates pesticide safety.
作者信息
Taylor D A
出版信息
Environ Health Perspect. 2000 Sep;108(9):A408-11. doi: 10.1289/ehp.108-a408.
A March 2000 report by the General Accounting Office, Pesticides: Improvements Needed to Ensure the Safety of Farmworkers and Their Children, states that much remains unknown about the risks faced by children in agriculture, and that enforcement of pesticide protection standards for farmworkers is patchy and unsystematic. Many cases of farmworkers' pesticide-related illnesses go unreported, leaving health workers with an inadequate basis for tracking patterns and fine-tuning pesticide standards, says the report. In addition, children are known to be more vulnerable to the effects of pesticides, but there is a lack of data regarding children's exposures and the precise effects of pesticides on children's health.
美国总审计局2000年3月发布的一份报告《农药：确保农场工人及其子女安全所需的改进》指出，农业中儿童面临的风险仍有很多未知之处，而且针对农场工人的农药保护标准执行情况参差不齐且缺乏系统性。该报告称，许多与农药相关的农场工人疾病案例未被报告，这使得卫生工作者难以掌握相关规律并对农药标准进行精准调整。此外，众所周知儿童更容易受到农药影响，但缺乏有关儿童接触农药情况以及农药对儿童健康的确切影响的数据。
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