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Examination of Pesticide Poisoning Deaths Statistics in Korea and Precautionary Measures Against Pesticide-Poisoning  

Jeong, Mi-Hye (Department of Crop Life Safety, NIAST, RDA)
Kim, Jin-Hwa (Department of Crop Life Safety, NIAST, RDA)
Park, Kyung-Hun (Department of Crop Life Safety, NIAST, RDA)
Lee, Hee-Dong (Department of Crop Life Safety, NIAST, RDA)
You, Are-Sun (Department of Crop Life Safety, NIAST, RDA)
Kim, Byung-Seok (Department of Crop Life Safety, NIAST, RDA)
Choi, Ju-Hyun (Department of Crop Life Safety, NIAST, RDA)
Kwon, Oh-Kyung (Department of Crop Life Safety, NIAST, RDA)
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The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science / v.12, no.2, 2008 , pp. 134-140 More about this Journal
Abstract
The data on pesticide poisoning death toll during 2000-2005 was obtained from Korean National Statistical Office and analysed to find out any precautionary measures against pesticide poisonings. Pesticide poisoning death toll showed slightly increasing trend with year up to about 3500 in 2005. Most of the pesticide poisoning death cases were intentional self-poisoning accounting for more than 80% of total pesticide poisoning death. The pesticide most often implicated in poisoning death were paraquat dichloride, a non-selective herbicide and organophosphate/carbamate insecticides. The regional distribution of pesticide poisoning death showed urban 21.6% and rural area 78.4%. As for the occupation of the dead, agricultural, forestry and fishery workers accounted for 27.4% and non-agricultural workers was 72.6% of pesticide poisoning death. Therefore, government need to take some precautionary measures to reduce the number of pesticide poisoning cases. It is strongly recommended that pesticide regulatory authorities encourage and train the agricultural workers to use safe storage boxes and enforce strict regulation for the prevention for the prevention of highly toxic pesticides sales to non-agricultural workers.
Keywords
pesticides; pesticide poisoning; precaution;
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