Pesticide Program:  Illness Monitoring and Prevention
	The mission of the  Pesticide Program  is to protect and enhance the health of Washington residents by monitoring and preventing pesticide-related illness.
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 About Us

What we do

The pesticide program provides

• public health monitoring for pesticide-related illness and injury.

• technical assistance and consultation to health care professionals and the public on the health effects of exposures to pesticides.
• outreach and safety training for farm workers and professional pesticide applicators.
• education for health care providers on recognizing, treating, and reporting suspected and confirmed pesticide-related illnesses.

How we do it

• Several hundred suspected pesticide poisonings are reported to DOH annually under notifiable conditions law.

• Staff investigate reports of suspected pesticide poisonings to determine their nature and cause, and make recommendations for their prevention.
• Data from investigations are compiled and submitted annually to the Pesticide Incident Reporting and Tracking (PIRT) Panel and published in the annual PIRT report.

For more information about the Pesticide Program, please contact Cynthia López or 360-236-3340.

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