LEGISLATORS have fled a bill requiring landowners to test for safe levels of pesticide before allowing farm workers to work on their sites.
LEGISLATORS have fled a bill requiring landowners to test for safe levels of pesticide before allowing farm workers to work on their sites.
Representatives Horacio P. Suansing Jr. and Estrellita B. Suansing filed House Bill 1088, which if passed will become the Farm Workers Protection Act in order to protect agricultural workers from the dangers of pesticides.
In recent years, pesticide poisoning has become a more prevalent international public health issue, with an estimated 200,000 people dying each year worldwide because of intentional, accidental, and occupational exposure to pesticides, according to the bills explanatory note.
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