Pesticides, airborne

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Table 1 Airborne pesticide characteristics and air sampling methods ...

The intent of this article is to provide an overview of methodology and materials for sampling airborne pesticide spray and spray collection on surfaces by sedimentation deposition and impaction after release from field sprayers. The term pesticide will be used as a general term to represent chemicals such as herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and related products. 

Farm worker exposure to pesticides has been studied extensively over the past 30 years.This scientitic discipline has evolved from the days when respiratory exposure of farm workers was measured using gauze dosimeters placed inside respirators to collect airborne pesticide residues to very sophisticated air sampling devices and remarkable dosimeter devices to measure dermal exposure to farm workers. ... 

Airborne pesticides have been collected by a variety of techniques using filters, impingers, bubblers, solid sorbents, polyurethane foams, and combinations thereof. Sampling for pesticides in air is complicated because specific pesticides may be present as particulate or as a vapor or both, depending on the concentration of the pesticide in the atmosphere, the equilibrium vapor concentration, and the temperature (1-6). 

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