[Occupational hygiene during pesticide use]. / Voprosy gigieny truda pri primenenii pestitsidov.

The study covered assortment and amount of pesticides varying in purpose and chemical class and applied in Saratov region in 2002 vs in 1980s and 1990s. Findings are changed assortment, occurrence of new generation pesticides, significantly lower pesticide load, and seed mordants predominant over other pesticide groups. These findings necessitate special attention to occupational hygiene for health preservation among rural agricultural workers.

[The establishment of the maximum permissible concentration of orlok in the air of a work area when used in agriculture]. / Obosnovanie predel'no dopustimoi kontsentratsii orloka v vozdukhe rabochei zony pri primenenii v sel'skom khoziaistve.

Inhaled Orlok causes changes in the CNS, blood morphology, renal function. The threshold concentration of Orlok is 0.17 mg/m3, its subthreshold concentration is 0.023 mg/m3, MAC in the workplace air is 0.05 mg/m3.