GAO Criticizes Weak Pesticide Protections for Farmworkers
Author: Cox, Caroline
Date Published: 2000
A report that examined available information about the acute and chronic health effects of pesticides. This report concluded that little information exists about how pesticides affect human health, whether for farmworkers, farm children or the general population. It called the EPA's primary means to reduce pesticide risk, the Worker Protection Standard, inadequate because EPA has little assurance that the protections called for by the Standard are actually being enforced
Date Published: 2000
A report that examined available information about the acute and chronic health effects of pesticides. This report concluded that little information exists about how pesticides affect human health, whether for farmworkers, farm children or the general population. It called the EPA's primary means to reduce pesticide risk, the Worker Protection Standard, inadequate because EPA has little assurance that the protections called for by the Standard are actually being enforced
