Health Precautions > Protecting yourself

Protecting yourself. Because pesticides can be toxic, you can never eliminated the hazard associated with their use. You can, however reduce the hazard by lowering your exposure to the pesticide.

  Hazard = Toxicity X Exposure

  = Toxicity X
           
  Hazard       Exposure

Decreasing your exposure, decreases hazard.

 
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