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Human Poisonings And Rodenticides: Evaluation Of Incidents Reported To The American Association Of Poison Control Centers, John D. Eisemann, Brett E. Petersen

USDA Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Accidental human exposure to pesticide products is a major concern of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). One condition of product re-registration is the submission of product-specific incident report summaries £mm the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) Toxic Exposure Surveillance System W S ) . Between 1986 and 1998, the AAPCC received a total of 22,921,827 incident reports from telephone calls and physician reports. The total number of incident report per year more than doubled between 1986 and 1998, with 2,241,082 incidents in 1998. While the total number of incidents increased each year, the reporting per year rate …