York | Archive | 2001 | March | 15
From the Evening Press, first published Thursday 15th Mar 2001.
AN expanded programme of research into effects of organophosphates on human health has been announced by the Government.
The work is to be funded by the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food, the Department of Health and the Health and Safety Executive. The Government is also funding an analytical survey of health complaints among sheep-dippers, which is being undertaken by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Among the questions to be addressed: How common is dipper's flu and what causes it? Does low-level exposure to OPs cause disabling neurological or psychiatric disease in a small sub-group of exposed persons? What are the effects of low-level exposure to OPs on children exposed directly or in the womb?
Updated: 10:46 Thursday, March 15, 2001
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