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Pesticide Illness Surveillance
- Pesticide Illness Surveillance Program - Description of this DPR program, with links to reports and data
- California law requiring reporting of pesticide-related illness (Opens in new window)
- Office of
Environmental Health Hazard Assessment - how to file a pesticide illness report
(OEHHA oversees physician reporting) (Opens in new window)
- Pesticide illness report form (PDF, 59 kb)
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health - NIOSH Sentinel Event Notification System for Occupational Risk (SENSOR) pesticide surveillance program (Opens in new window)
California Medical Supervision Program
- Regulation requiring medical supervision for certain California workers who work with pesticides
- Guidelines for physicians who supervise workers exposed to cholinesterase- inhibiting pesticides (PDF, 538 kb)
- Laboratories approved for cholinesterase testing for occupational health surveillance
Pesticide Illness/Injury Treatment Information
Disclaimer: We have not evaluated all the advice on these sites, and any recommendations are those of the external site.
- On-Line Training: Recognition, Management and Reporting Pesticide Illness. (Opens in new window)
- Physician pesticide training material available from the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics. Click on "Downloadable Powerpoint" to find Pesticide Illness training. (Opens in new window)
- California Poison Control
System (CPCS) for health care professionals (Opens in new window)
- CPCS Antidote Chart (PDF, 350 kb)
- Comparing Symptoms of Heat Stress and Pesticide Poisoning (organophosphate/carbamate) - Maryland Cooperative Extension publication (PDF, 32 kb)
- Medical Management Guidelines for Acute Chemical Exposures from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ASTDR) (Opens in new window)
- National Pesticide Medical Monitoring Program provides informational assistance in the assessment of human exposure to pesticides (case profiles, treatment guidelines, etc.) (Opens in new window)
- Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings - U.S. EPA, 5th edition, 1999 (Opens in new window)
- TOXNET - National Library of Medicine databases, including the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSBD) with treatment information from PoisonDex, Toxline, and ChemID (Opens in new window)
Pesticide Information Sites
- Chemicals In the Environment - U.S. EPA chemical fact sheets (including many pesticides) (Opens in new window)
- EXTOXNET - Information on the potential health effects of pesticides from a consortium of universities (Opens in new window)
- National Pesticide Information Center, funded by U.S. EPA, with general and technical toxicology information, health information and pesticide emergency resources (Opens in new window)
- Toxicology data review - DPR summaries of toxicology data on file
- Worker Health and Safety reports - DPR Worker Health and Safety Branch reports include exposure assessments, field study reports, and epidemiology studies
For content questions contact:
Louise Mehler
1001 I Street, P.O. Box 4015
Sacramento, California 95812-4015
Phone: (916) 445-4190
E-mail: lmehler@cdpr.ca.gov