1970’s Wee Waa NSW. Health Concerns Cotton Pesticides

8.9 Community exposure to pesticides

Communities have an increasing concern about the use and safety of pesticides. The past 20

years or so has seen a number of communities express concern over potential and/or

perceived adverse health effects of pesticides in use in adjoining or previous agricultural

production. Table 7.9 briefly summarises a number of these events.

Late 1970’s, Wee Waa NSW, Cotton, Mainly Agricultural Concerns, North West Pesticide Committee, ongoing interagency committee

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