Issues: Health

Trouble on the Farm
Growing Up with Pesticides in Agricultural Communities


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Reviewers

The author wishes to thank the following scientists for reviewing this report. The views presented in this document do not necessarily reflect the opinions of those who helped to review it.


Asa Bradman, Ph.D.
Dept. of Environmental Health Sciences
School of Public Health
University of California
Berkeley, CA

David Camann, M.S.
Staff Scientist
Southwest Research Institute
San Antonio, TX

Mark Miller, M.D., M.P.H.
Member, American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Environmental Health
Pediatrician
Chico, CA

Marion Moses, M.D.
President
Pesticide Education Center
San Francisco,CA

Mary Kay O’Rourke, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Public Health
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Susan H. Pollack, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine, and
    Pediatric and Adolescent Injury Prevention Program
University of Kentucky Medical Center
Lexington, KY

Margaret Seminario, M.D., M.P.H.
Director of Occupational Safety & Health
AFL-CIO
Washington, DC

Tim K. Takaro, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.
Acting Assistant Professor
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Shelia Hoar Zahm, Sc.D.
Occupational Studies Section
National Cancer Institute
Rockville, MD


The author also wishes to thank the following farmworker and pesticide activists for reviewing this report.


Shelley Davis
Farmworker Justice Fund
Washington, DC

Norma Grier
Caroline Cox
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Eugene, OR

Kate Hallward
United Farm Workers of America
Watsonville, CA

Ellen Hickey
Monica Moore
Pesticide Action Network, North America
San Francisco, CA

Ralph Lightstone
Anne Katten
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
Sacramento, CA

Erik Nicholson
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste
Woodburn, OR

Pam Porter
Wisconsin’s Environmental Decade
Madison, WI

Laura Weiss
Oregon Environmental Council
Portland, OR

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