Top: A sweatshirt worn under personal protective equipment during a four-hour spray session with fluorescent tracer added to the tank shows areas of contamination. Bottom: Areas of the neck were contaminated. There was some wind, and the suit did not cover this part of the neck. Residues in the home are higher where workers delay changing clothes after work.Numerous studies conducted in Washington State and elsewhere have found organophosphate pesticides, such as Lorsban (chlorpyriphos) and Guthion (azinphos-methyl), in dust samples in agricultural workers’ homes. There is evidence that family members have been inadvertently exposed, as measured by metabolites of these […]