Articoli scientifici - 13/07/2026
Mortality in agriculture workers: a case-control study in Italy
Mortalità nei lavoratori dell’agricoltura: uno studio caso-controllo in Italia
Introduction
Working in agriculture includes different job activities such as cultivation, harvesting crops, rearing animals, and forestry. Among the different occupational or environmental risk factors, pesticides are the most important agents. Additional agents are solar radiation, engine exhausts, solvents, dusts, and zoonotic microbes. Pesticides are a broad category, which include insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, plant growth regulators, and other functional categories, with different …