Occupational Exposure Farmworkers and handlers face high risk of exposure to pesticides through their occupations ◦ Hand-labor tasks in pesticide-treated crops, such as harvesting, thinning, pruning ◦ Handling (mixing, loading, and applying) pesticides ◦ Pesticide drift from neighboring fields Studies show that farmworker families may have higher levels of pesticide exposure than non-farmworker families ◦ Take-home transfer of pesticide residues ◦ Proximity of housing to treated areas 5