Iowa State University Extension
The
best management practice for clothing during pesticide application
is daily laundering. It's a simple way to make sure pesticide
exposure is kept to a minimum.
If you
don't do your own laundry, make sure the person who does this
task has rubber gloves to handle pesticide-soiled clothes.
Then follow these tips for laundering pesticide-soiled clothes:
- Don't
try to wash items saturated with full-strength pesticide
concentrate-discard them.
- Keep
pesticide-soiled clothes separate from family clothes, before
and during laundering.
- Wash
as soon as possible after soiling.
- Pre-rinse
or pre-soak in a tub, on a line with a garden hose, or in
your washer before the regular wash cycle.
- Refill
the washer with hot water for washing.
- Use
a heavy-duty detergent.
- Don't
overload the washer-leave room for clothes to circulate.
- Use
the highest water level setting.
- Use
the regular wash cycle, not a shorter knit one.
- Never
use your sudsaver feature for pesticide-soiled clothes.
- Hang
clothes outside in the sun to dry.
- Flush
out your washer by running it through a complete cycle with
hot water and detergent, but no clothes, before washing
another load of family clothes.
For
further information, contact the County Extension office for
a copy of the new publication, Learn About Pesticides and
Clothes, Pm-1265f.
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NASD Review: 04/2002
This
news release was distributed by Iowa State University Extension
as part of the Safe Farm program. Safe Farm promotes health
and safety in agriculture. It is funded by the National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health, Iowa State University, and
a network of groups that serve Iowa farm workers and their families.
Distribution date: June 1992.
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