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4 California Data to Inform Priority-Setting and Risk Assessment of Pesticides
Pages 34-40

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... ; on specific handler exposure scenarios, such as the Pesticide Handler Exposure Database, the Agricultural Handlers Exposure Database, and the Outdoor Residential Exposure Task Force; and on other relevant issues such as Agricultural Reentry Task Force Transfer Coefficients. DPR supplements exposure assessments with California-specific information, which the committee judges to be the most valuable contribution to DPR's risk-assessment process.
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... . Although it would be difficult to obtain accurate information on personal home use, it might be possible to collect some information by expanding PUR reporting requirements to cover all licensed pesticide appliers, including those who perform applications for nonagricultural purposes at homes, institutions, and industries.
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... Cases are reported by five mechanisms: a clinician reports a suspected case to a local health officer, who files an illness report; a clinician calls the California Poison Control System; the worker-compensation system identifies cases; a clinician files a Doctor's First Report of Occupational Illness and Injury form (DPR 2003) ; or a clinician reports a case on line through the California Reportable Disease Information Exchange system (CDPH 2014)
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...  Because surveillance programs like PISP rarely capture more than a moderate percentage of cases, consideration should be given to improving the reporting of pesticide-related illness, for example, by improving training of clinicians, expanding the means by which cases can be reported, searching electronic health records, and possibly expanding the use of biomarkers. More accurate data on pesticide-related illness will support better priority-setting and aid in the development of problem formulation for conducting risk assessments of specific pesticides.
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... California Department of Pesticide Regulation, California Environmental Protection Agency, Sacramento, CA
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From page 39...
... 2014. Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee 21st Century Toxicology/New Integrated Testing Strategies Workgroup [online]
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... 2014b. Urinary pyrethroid and chlorpyrifos metabolite concentrations in Northern California families and their relationship to indoor residential insecticide levels, part of the Study of Use of Products and Exposure Related Behavior (SUPERB)
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