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An urgent need to restrict access to pesticides based on human lethality [1]

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Agricultural pesticides account for at least 250,000 suicide deaths each year, making pesticides the single most common means of suicide worldwide. The proportion of suicide deaths attributable to pesticide self-poisoning varies considerably across the world: in Europe and the Americas fewer than 5% of suicide deaths involve pesticides; in the Eastern Mediterranean, African, and Southeast Asian regions approximately 20%

Publication Date: 
25/10/2010
Matthew Miller [2], Kavi Bhalla [3]
PLoS Medicine [4]
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Pesticides And Toxins [5], Health Effects [6], Pesticide Use [7], Sri Lanka [8], South Asia [9], Toxicity Studies [10], WHO [11], Pesticide Poisoning [12]

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Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/urgent-need-restrict-access-pesticides-based-human-lethality

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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/urgent-need-restrict-access-pesticides-based-human-lethality
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/matthew-miller
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/kavi-bhalla
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/plos-medicine
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pesticides-and-toxins
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-effects
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pesticide-use
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sri-lanka
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/south-asia
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/toxicity-studies
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/who
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pesticide-poisoning