Occupational Health Surveillance - Environmental Health
August 26, 2009
A 2007 analysis of New Mexico Poison and Drug Information Center call data for work-related illness and injury due to pesticides found that the Southwestern region of the state had the highest rate of calls over any other region. The southwestern region, including Doña Ana, Hidalgo, and Luna Counties along the NM-Mexico border, is highly agricultural, but little is known about pesticide exposures of farmworkers there.
