Intoxication in workers at a pesticide company in Tien Giang province between 1995-1999

ABSTRACT

In our retrospective study on the contamination of pesticides during 1995-1999, mainly depending on cholinesterase index in blood, 101 workers were interviewed directly by available questionnaire. The results showed that 60 cases of contamination were discovered, this prevalence decreased gradually every year, there were 4 cases (3.96%) in 1999. The types of intoxication were changed little by little from the organic phosphorum to perythroid. The protection and occupational safe and hygiene had been given much attention and brought into play of the preventive effects