SURVEY OF EXPOSURE TO PESTICIDES IN GREENHOUSES

Worker exposure to two classes of pesticide were studied - chlorinated hydrocarbons, e. g. , -dicofol, and synthetic pyrethroids, e. g. , -deltamethrin, during their application on cropss in a laboratory greenhouse together with subsequent safe reentry. Dicofol was applied to lemon trees and deltamethrin was applied to French Beans. The objectives of this study were to determine the potential dermal and inhalation exposure to mixer/applicators who apply deltamethrin to vegetable crops in the greenhouses of southern France, and of workers who pick fruit from treated trees in southern France in order to attempt, thereby, to correlate the pesticide exposures from the different compounds and to calculate safe reentry intervals for noncholinesterase inhibiting pesticides.