Secure Pesticide Storage: Security and Safety-promoting Features of Pesticide Storage Facilities

Pattern of pesticide storage before pesticide self-poisoning in rural Sri Lanka

BACKGROUND Deliberate self-poisoning with agricultural pesticides is the commonest means of suicide in rural Asia. It is mostly impulsive and facilitated by easy access to pesticides. The aim of this large observational study was to investigate the immediate source of pesticides used for self-harm to help inform suicide prevention strategies such as reducing domestic access to pesticides. MET...

Learning from a negative trial of lockable pesticide storage

www.thelancet.com Published online August 11, 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32207-9 1 With a view to reducing pesticide self-poisoning in Sri Lanka, Melissa Pearson and colleagues did one of the largest community-based cluster-randomised controlled trials of the effectiveness of household lockable pesticide storage, reported in The Lancet. The effort is admirable, but unfortunate...

Changes of pesticide residues in apples during cold storage

The dynamics of incurred pesticide residues in apples, variety Melrose, was monitored during their cold storage at 1–3 C for 5 months. Of 21 active ingredients contained in pesticide preparations applied within four experimental pre-harvest regimes, only six fungicides (captan, cyprodinyl, dodine, pyrimethanil, tebuconazole, tolyfluanid) and one insecticide (phosalone) were detected at the time...

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Confined space manure storage and facilities safety assessment.

A mail survey of 1,200 farms across 16 states was conducted to identify the number, type, and size of manure storages per farm, as well as safety-related behaviors or actions related to entry into confined-space manure storage and handling facilities. Respondents provided data on 297 storage units and facilities, with approximately 75% reporting up to three storages per farm operation. Dimensio...