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Pesticide Illness/Injury Treatment Information

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• Online Training: Recognition, Management and Reporting Pesticide Illness.
• Physician pesticide training material available from the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC) resource library
• California Poison Control System (CPCS) for health care professionals
  • CPCS Antidote Chart, PDF
• Posters and pamphlets for medical facilities - developed by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)
• Comparing Symptoms of Heat Stress and Pesticide Poisoning (organophosphate/carbamate), PDF - Maryland Cooperative Extension publication
• Medical Management Guidelines for Acute Chemical Exposures from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
• Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings - U.S. EPA , in English and Spanish
• TOXNET - National Library of Medicine databases, including the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSBD) with treatment information from PoisonDex, Toxline, and ChemID

Pesticide Illness Tracking

• Pesticide Illness Surveillance Program
• California law requiring reporting of pesticide- related illness
  • How to file a pesticide illness report - OEHHA oversees physician reporting.
• Pesticide illness report form, PDF (59 kb)
• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health - Sentinel Event Notification System for Occupational Risk (SENSOR) pesticide surveillance program

California Medical Supervision Program

• Regulation requiring medical supervision for certain pesticide workers
• Guidelines for physicians, PDF who supervise workers exposed to cholinesterase- inhibiting pesticides (538 kb)
• Laboratories approved for cholinesterase testing for occupational health surveillance
  • Regulation requiring laboratories approved for occupational health surveillance cholinesterase testing to report results to DPR.

Pesticide Information Sites

• TOXNET - National Library of Medicine Toxicology Data Network
• EXTOXNET - Information on the potential health effects of pesticides
• National Pesticide Information Center, funded by U.S. EPA, with general and technical toxicology information, health information and pesticide emergency resources
• Pesticide labels:
  • Listing of products registered in California
  • U.S. EPA's Pesticide Product Label System (PPLS) - collection of label images approved by the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP).
    
    Note: PPLS labels include those of pesticide products that may not be registered in California. PPLS labels may not reflect the DPR registered label.
  • Agricultural chemical labels and MSDS - provided and maintained by Crop Data Management Systems (CDMS) Inc.
• Worker Health and Safety Branch reports - Includes exposure assessments, field study reports, and epidemiological studies.

For content questions, contact:
Phone: (916) 445-4222
E-mail: PISP@cdpr.ca.gov