Pesticides clothing decontamination

Armour, M.A. et al., Decontamination of spills and residues of pesticides and protective clothing worn during their handling, Proceedings of the Pacific Basin Conference on Hazardous Waste Research, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, 1996, 44. 

The first project on the removal of pesticide residues from fabrics by laundering or "pesticide decontamination" was a part of a doctoral dissertation by Elizabeth Easter and Is published in the March 1983 AATCC journal (4). This project was undertaken to determine if a relationship does in fact exist between the removal of pesticide residues and the removal of common soil. In textiles, "soiling denotes the undesirable accumulation of oily and/or particulate materials on fabrics (6). As significant levels of pesticide residues in workers clothing have been reported by researchers, these socalled "contaminated" fabrics may also be defined as "soiled" fabrics (5, 7, 8). 

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