Luis Cabrera, Pamela Rao, Rosa Saavedra, Austin Colin, Sara Quandt, Thomas Arcury
Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Facts:
  • Agricultural chemicals can enter your body by:
    • Getting on your skin
    • Breathing them in
    • Swallowing them
    • Getting them in your eyes
  • The most common way that agricultural chemicals can enter your body is by getting on your skin.

    Illustration of chemicals entering the skin

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Reviewed for NASD: 10/2002