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RE: Poisoning by pesticides is a risk for both agricultural workers and their families and the population in general.
That need to meet demand for an ever increasing population results in some bad stuff sometimes ( ya know like pesticides as you were talking about) but it's choices of what tradeoffs are worth it and what aren't. I think these chemicals need to be a last resort and new methodologies found to improve agricultural practices but I also probably have a very biased opinion because I spent a summer spraying herbicides and the exposure even with ppe noticably reduced my immune system and I started getting sick all the time. I still have yet to fully recover and get sick much easier than I ever use to.
if the effects of these toxic in the salu is to deperder of the level of toxicity of the same one and also of the adequate use ppe, since as it is known these toxics can penetrate the human organism through diverse vias, as they are the respiratory, digestive and dermic. therefore if a basic ppe is used as for example mouth and glove cover, it does not mean that we are totally protected, in this sense the agrochemicals can penetrate other areas of the body that are unprotected. and we must also bear in mind that there are agrochemicals that have a greater range of toxicity compared to others.