Surgeon General's Conference on Agricultural Sakty and Health
FARM&E 2000 o A National Coalition for Local Action
Convened by the National lnstkte tbr Occupational Safety and Health
April 30 - May 3, 7997, Des Moines, Iowa

NATIONAL PARTICIPANTS

Figure 1. The 41 States That Were Represented by Participants at the Conference.

ALABAMA
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Mr. Henry Miles, Sr.
FFA Advisor
Paramount High School
P. 0. Box 188
Boligee, AL 35443

Mr. Jimmy Moore
FFA Safety Chairperson
Paramount High School
P. 0, Box 188
Boligee, AL 35443

Mr. Charles 6. Ogburn
Extension Agricultural Engineer
Alabama Cooperative Extension
Service, Auburn University
Room 218, Agricultural Engineering
Building
Auburn, AL 36849

ALASKA

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Mr. Richard Kennedy   *

Statistician
NIOSH, CDC
3601 C. Street, Suite 250
Anchorage, AK 99503

Mr. Robert Seay
County Extension Agent
Cooperative Extension Service
1204 SW 14th Street
Bentonville, AK 72712

Surgeon General's Conference on Agricultural Safety and Health - 1991

ARIZONA

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Mr. Lance Fluegel
Safety Coordinator
Arizona Cooperative Extension
222A Forbes Building
Tucson, AZ 85721

ARKANSAS
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Mr. Jim Wohlleb
Assistant Director
Arkansas Area Health
1123 South University
Little Rock, AR 72205

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National Participants

CALIFORNIA
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Dr. Carol Conroy
Occuoational

Epidemiologist
California Occupational Health Program
2151 Berkeley Way, Annex 11
Berkeley, CA 94704

Dr. David F. Goldsmith
University of California, Davis
Division of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine
ITEH
Davis, CA 95616

Mr. Gene F. Graham
Assistant Program Director
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
1111 N. Dartmouth Ave, Apt 205
Clairemont, CA 91711

Mr. James Grieshop
Specialist, Applied Behavioral Sciences
University of California
Department of Applied Behavioral
Sciences
Davis, CA 95616

Mr. Kevin Kokrda
Engineering Admininistrative Manager
Kubota Tractor Corporation
550 W. Artesia Boulevard
Compton, CA 90220-7020

Mr. Neil Maizlish
Epidemiologist
California Occupational Health Program
2251 Berkeley Way, Annex 11
Berkeley, CA 94704

Mr. Craig Merrilees
Special Projects Director
National Toxics Campaign and
Consumer Pesticide broi,ct
425 Mississippi Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

Dr. James M. Meyers
Agricultural Health Specialist
University of California, Berkeley
322 Warren Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
5701642-8375
570/ 6425815 - FAX

Dr. John Miles
University of California, Davis
Agricultural Engineering Department
Davis, CA 95616

Mr. Dalton Paxman
University of California, Berkeley
322 Warren Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720

Dr. Marc Schenker
University of California, Davis
Agricultural Health and Safety Center
Davis, CA 95616

Dr. Wrlliam E. Steinke
Extension Agricultural Engineer
Aaricultural Enaineerina Extension
Uiiiversity of Glifornia-
Davis, CA 95616

Mr. Don Villarejo
Executive Director
California Institute for Rural Studies
P.O. Box 2143
Davis, CA 95617

Mr. Robert Wagner
Director, Agricultural Safety
Zenith Insurance Company
226 Airport Parkway
San Jose, CA 95110

Ms. Ellen G. Widess
Director of Health and Safety Policy
Children's Advocacy Institute
Suite 340
1160 Battery Stret, Suite 340
San Francisco, CA 94111

Ms. Melanie Zavala
Farm Worker Safety Coordinator
University of California, Davis
IPM Education and Publications
Davis, CA 956168620

COLORADO
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Mr. Paul D. Ayers  cl
Colorado State
Department of Agricultural and
Chemical Engineering
Ft. Collins, CO 80523

Ms. Lela K. Criswell
Epidemiology
Colorado State University
Department of Environmental Health
Ft. Collins. CO 80523

Mr. Bill Daniels
Regional Representative
Public Health Service Region 8
1961 Stout Street
Denver, CO 80227

Dr. Lorann Stallones
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Health
Colorado State
Fort Collins, CO 80523

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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Ms. Judith Bowers
Head. Public Affairs
Communication, Information, and
Technology Unit
3331 South Building
Washington, DC 20250-0900

Ms. Carmen Calhoun
Assistant to the Director
National Association of Wheat Growers
Foundation
415 Second Street, N.E.
Washington, DC 20002

Dr. David J. Cochran
Industrial Engineer
175 Nebraska Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0518

Ms. Cynthia Douglass
401 M. Street, SW
OS-1 20
Washington, DC 20460

Mr. Tom Harkin
U.S. Senator

State of Iowa University
SH531 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-1502

Dr. Myron D. Johnsrud
Administrator, Extension Service
USDA
Room 338 A, Administration Building
Washington, DC 20250-0900

Dr. Daniel E. Kugler
Director, Office of Agricultural Materials
USDA
14th and Independence Avenue, SW,
Aerospace Center 342
Washington, DC 202502200

Mr. Stephen Mallinger
Deputy Director of Technical Support
OSHA, US Department of Labor
200 Constitution Avenue, NW
Room N3653

Washington, DC 20210

Dr. J. Michael McGinnis
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health
DHHS
330 C Street, SW, Room 2132
Washington, DC 20201

Mr. Joseph M. Miller
Bureau df Census
Aoriculture Division
426 lverson Building
Washington, DC 20715

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Participants

Dr. Antonia C. Novello
Surgeon General
USPHS
The Hubert Humphrey Building
Room 710G
200 Independence, SW
Washington, DC 20201

Ms. Joann On
National Aerial Agricultural Association
1005 E Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003

Mr. Vernon Orr
President
National Agricultural Aviation
Association
1005 E Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003

Mr. Bradley K. Rein
USDA Extension Service
Agricultural Programs
Room 3346, S. Building
Washington, DC 20250-0900

Dr. Jane Rissler
Biotechnology Specialist
National Wildlife Federation
14W 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Mr. Randall Rutta
Director of Governmental Affairs
National Easter Seal Society
1350 NY Avenue, NW, Suite 415
Washington, DC 20005

Mr. Thomas Seymour
Deputy Director of Safety
OSHA, US Department of Labor
200 Constitution Avenue, NW
Room N3605
Washington, DC 20210

Dr. Louis W. Sullivan
Secretary of Health and Human
Services
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Room 615F
Washington, DC 20201

Dr. Leslie Whitener
Leader, Agricultural Labor Section
USDA
1301 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005

Ms. Valerie A, Wilk
Health Specialist
Farm Worker Justice Fund, Inc.
2001 S. Street, NW, Suite 210
Washington, DC 20009

FLORIDA
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Mr. Arturo Lopez
Executive Director
Coalition of florida
Farmworker
pp;t;bn;
Homestead, FL

GEORGIA

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Ms. Diane Allen
NIOSH, CDC
Room 3066, MS D-26  I,f
Atlanta, GA 30333

Ms. Jennifer L Ballew
NIOSH, CDC
Room 3417, MS D-32
Atlanta, GA 30333

Ms. Kimberly L Barth
NIOSH. CDC
Room &43, MS D-26
Atlanta, GA 36333

Mr. Paul Burlack
Public Health Advisor
CDC
Koger Center, 1045, MS F-36
Atlanta, GA 30333

Ms. Glenda Cowart
Cffice of the Director
CDC
Room 2011, MS D-15
Atlanta, GA 36333

Ms. Ann Cronin
NIOSH, CDC
Room 3124, MS D-36
Atlanta, GA 30333

Ms. Brooke Dixon
Director, Georgia Migrant Health and
Agricultural Surveillance Program
Georgia Division of Public Health
1190 Winding Branch Circle
Dunwoody, GA 30336

Ms. Betty Dryden
NIOSH, CDC
Room 3067, MS D-26
Atlanta, GA 30333

Mr. Brian Dugan
NIOSH, CDC
Room 3423, MS D-32
Atlanta, GA 39333

Dr. Richard L Ehrenberg
NIOSH, CDC
Room 3047, MS D-26
Atlanta, GA 30333

Dr. Roy M. Fleming
Associate Director for Grants
NIOSH, CDC
Room 3057, MS D-313
Atlanta, GA 313333

Mr. William Gimson
Deputy Director
Office-of Program Support, CDC
Financial Management Office
Buckhead, 200;MS E-12
Atlanta, GA 30333

Ms. Mary Griffin
NIOSH. CDC
Room 3112, MS D-36
Atlanta, GA 30333

Mr. Tim Groza
NIOSH, CDC
Room 3040 MS D-29
Atlanta, GA 36333

Ms. Denise Johnson
Public Health Advisor
CDC
1600 Clifton Road, NE
Atlanta. GA 30333

Ms. Joyce A. Johnson
NIOSH. CDC
Room 3040, MS D-29
Atlanta, GA 30333

Mr. Ted Katz
NIOSH, CDC
Room 3116, MS D-36
Atlanta, GA 30333

Ms. Evelyn Lemelin
Program Analyst
NIOSH, CDC
Room 3040, MS D-29
Atlanta, GA 30333

Dr. Richard A. Lemen
Deputy Director
NIOSH, CDC
Room 3007, MS D-36
Atlanta, GA 36333

Dr. Eugene J. Lengerich
Epidemiologist
CDC, CCDPHP
Chamblee, 1019, MS F-13
Atlanta, GA 30333

Mrs. Joan P. Millar
3243 Wake Robbin Trail, NE
Atlanta, GA 30341

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National Pattlclpants

Dr. J. Donald Mlllar
Director
NIOSH, CDC
Room 3007, MS D-36
Atlanta, GA 30333

Ms. Barbara Morrison
Program Analyst
NIOSH. CDC
Room 3040, MS D-29
Atlanta, GA 30333

Mrs. Annette B. Myers
1293 Berkley Road
Avondale Estates, GA 30002-1517

Mr. Melvin L. Myers
Special Assistant to the Director
NIOSH, CDC
Room 3041, MS D-26
Atlanta, GA 30333

Ms. Barbara Nelson
Program Analyst
NIOSH, CDC
Room 3040, MS D-29
Atlanta, GA 30333

Mr. Claude F. Pickelsimer, Jr.
Director, FM0
CDC
Buckhead, 200, MS E-12
Atlanta, GA 30333

Dr. Patricia H. Price
Medical Cfficer
ATSDR
Executive Park, MS E-33
Atlanta, GA 30333

Dr. William L. Roper
Director, CDC
Room 2000, MS D-14
Atlanta. GA 30333

Mr. Sven J. Rundman, Ill
OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor
1375 Peachtree Street, NE
Room 587

Atlanta, GA 30367

Mr. Stan Salisbury
Regional Program Consultant
Public Health Service Region IV
101 Marietta Tower
Atlanta, GA 30323

Ms. Ann Smith
Program Analyst
NIOSH, CDC
Room 3040, MS D-29
Atlanta, GA 30333

Mr. Larry W. Sparka
NIOSH. CDC
Roo& j104, MS D-35
Atlanta, GA 30333

Ms. Gwendolyn L Strickland
Senior Attorney
CDC, Office of the General Counsel
Room 4017, MS C-05
Atlanta, GA 30333

Ms. Newell B. Tozzer
Program Analyst
NIOSH, CDC
Room 3040, MS D29
Atlanta, GA 30333

Mr. Bobby. L. Tyson
Extension-Engineer
Universitv of GA
Athens, GA 30602

Ms. Barbara Wedding
NIOSH, CDC -
Room 3053. MS D-30
Atlanta, GA' 30333

Ms. Katherine Wilson
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion
CDC
Koger Center, 4102, MS K-46
Atlanta, GA 30333

Ms. Rebecca B. Wolf
Program Analyst
CDC, OPPE
Room 2050, MS D-23
Atlanta, GA 30333

IDAHO
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Mr. Larry Belmont
Director, Idaho
Panhandle
Health District 1
2195 lronwood Court
Coeur d'Alene, ID 63614

Dr. Jim Berry
Director, Production Research
Rogers NK Seed Company
6338 Highway 20-26
Nampa, ID 83687

Mr. Tom Karskey
Extension Farm Safety Specialist
University of Idaho
Agricultural Engineering Department
Moscow, ID 83843

Mr. Ryan Kurhmiohrl
osti
U.S. Deoartmrnt of Labor
Ee yoh Lakeharbor Lane
Boise, ID 83703

ILLINOIS
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Mr. Kevin
Adolphaon
Commercial Loae
Control Coordinator
Country Companies
1705 Towanda Avenue
Bloomlngton, IL 61702-2100

Dr. Robert Aherln
Professor, Department of Agricultural
Engineering
University of Illinois
1304 West Pennsylvania Avenue
Urbana, IL 61601

Dr. Walter J. Armbruster
Associate Managing Director
Farm Foundation
1211 W. 22nd Street, R216
Oak Brook, IL 60521-2197

Mr. L. Dale Baker
Product Safety Engineer
JI Case Company
7 South 600 County Line Road
Hinsdale, IL 60521

Mr. Emmett Barker
President
Equipment Manufacturers Institute
10 South Riverside Plaza
Suite 1220
Chicago, IL 60606-3710

Ms. Page L. Bellinger
Manager of Product Safety and
Engineering Standards
Deere and Company
John Deere Road
Moline, IL 61265

Mr. James F. Bennett
Farm and Industrial Equipment
Manufacturer's Institute
lo South Riverside Plaza, Suite 1220
Chicago, IL 606Q6-3710

Mr. Stanley Bozdech
Assistant Manager of Engineering
Dekalb Plant Genetics
3100 Sycamore Road
Dekalb, IL 60115

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Participants

Mr. Jack W. Burke
Program Manager
Agricultural Safety
Natlonal Safety Council
444 North Mlchlgan Avenue
Chlcago, IL 60611

Dr. Wade P. Clarke
Director, Government Affairs
Deere and Company
John Deere Road
Moline, IL 61265

Mr. John H. Crowley
Director Safety Programs
Equipment Manufacturers Institute
10 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 1220
Chicago, IL 60606-3710

Ms. Belinda Dehart
Illinois Department of Public Health
Center for Rural Health
535 W. Jefferson
Springfield, IL 62761

Mr. Richard De Pauw
Product Safety Coordinator
John Deere Harvester Works PDD
1800 158th Street
East Moline, IL 61244

Dr. Gary Erisman
Private Farmer
P.O. Box 278
Stanford, IL 61774

Ms. Elizabeth Esseks
Graduate Student
University of lllnois
Department of Health and Safety
Studies
121 Huff Hall, 1206 S. Fourth Street
Champaign, IL 61820

Ms. Theresa Foes
Director of Health Education
Rock Island County Health Department
2122 25th Avenue
Rock Island, IL 61207

Mr. Joseph A. Kinney
Executive Director
National Safe Workplace Institute
122 S. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1450
Chicago, IL 60603

Mr. Mark Landmark
Director of Safety
American Farm Bureau Federation
225ToughyAvenue
Park Ridge, IL 60068

Mr. Terry L Loughrin
Produot Englnerrlng Manager
Walterschrld, Inc.
16 W 030 83rd Street
Burr Ridge, IL 80521

Mr. Murray D. Madsen
Product Safety Engineer for Agriculture
Equipment
Deere and Company
Product Safety and Engineering
Standards
Mollne, IL 61265

Ms. Judy Marshall
Writer
Deere and Company
John Deere Road
Moline, IL 61265

Mr. Shane Miller
Route 1, Box 228
Tolono, IL 61880

Ms. Leslie Nickels
Project Director
University of Illinois
815 W. Van Buren, Suite 214
Chicago, IL 60607

Mr. Keith Pfundstein
Owner
KPS Technology
3714 44th Street
Rock Island, IL 61201

Ms. Marsha Purcell
Director of Program Development
American Farm Bureau Federation
225 Touhy Avenue
Park Ridge, IL 60068

Ms. Barbara I. Riordan
Childhood Injury Prevention Consultant
Illinois Dept of Public Health
2009 Glenview Road
Rockford, IL 61107

Mr. Dave Schmerse
Project Manager, Product Safety
Deere and Company
John Deere Road
Moline, IL 61265

Mr. Doug Sommer
District Coordinator of Community
Education
Country Companies
Box 2020
Bloomington, IL 61701

Mr. Mike Tumbleeon
Unlversltv of llllnois
VoternaG Medlclne Basic Solence
BuildInn. Room 3217
2001 S,iJnooln Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801

Mr. Jamra Westaby
University of Illlnols
Department of Agricultural Engineering
1304 W. Pennsylvania Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801

Mr. James L Willlams
Associate Director
Community Education
Country Companles
1701 Towanda Avenue
P.O. Box 2020
Bloomington, IL 61701

Mr. Ted 0. Yanecek
Legislative Counsel
Deere and Company
John Deere Road
Moline. IL 61265

Mr. Tracy Mefford
FFA President
Southwestern-
Hanover FFA
Route 5, Box 222
Madison, IN 47250

Dr. Robert R. Pinger
Director
Public Health Entomology Laboratory
Ball State
Muncie, IN 47306

Mr. Ken Salkeld
FFA Advisor
Southwestern FFA
Route 1, Box 473 D
Lexington, IN 47138

Mr. Mark Timm
President
National FFA Organization
Route 1, Box 20AA
Fillmore, IN 46128

IOWA
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Ms. Marilyn Adams
President   Q

Farm Safety for "Just
Kids"
P.O. Box 458
Earlham, IA 50072

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National Participants

Mr. Eugene L Ahrenholtz
Vice President of Operations
Clean Air Filter Company
Route 1, Box 18
Defiance, IA 51527

Mr. Dale E. Anthony
Agricultural Injury Investigator
Iowa Department of Public Health
321 E. 12th Street, Lucas Building
Des Moines, IA 50319-0075

Mr. Christopher Atchison
Director
Iowa Department of Public Health
321 E. 12th Street, Lucas Building
Des Moines, IA 50319

Mr. Lawrence E. Barker
Director
Scott County Health Department
428 Western Avenue
Davenport, IA 52801

Ms. Marcia A. Barrett
Agricultural Occupational Health Nurse
MMSC AgriCare
3 South 4th Avenue
Marshalltown, IA 50158

Ms. Marlene Beckman
EMS Supervisor
Southeastern Community College
Route 1, Box 85
Mediopolis, IA 52637

Dr. Jack Beno
Associate Professor for Occupational
Safety and Health
Iowa State
122 Industrial ED and Tech II
Ames, IA 50011

Ms. Norma Bettis
Administrative Assistant
Iowa-Nebraska Farm Engineering
Association
1311 50th Street
Des Moines, IA 50265

Ms. Sarah Black
Rural Initiative Coordinator
Iowa Methodist Health System
1200 Pleasant Street
Des Moines, IA 50309

Ms. Nancy Boettger
Director of Education and Resource
Development
Myrtue Memorial Hospital
1213 Garfield
Harlan, IA 51537

Mr. Dennis Bradley
Registered Nurse
Meroy Health Center
Mercy Drive
Dubuque, IA 52001

Mr. Donald R. Bradley
Director. EMSLRC
University of lowa Hospitals
5367 UCP
Iowa City, IA 52242

Mr. John Bremhurst
Industrial Hygienist
U.S. Department of Labor
4361 69th
Urbandale, IA 50322

Ms. Mary J. Buchele
President
Buchele Associates, Ltd.
239 Parkridge Circle
Ames, IA 50010

Dr. Wesley F. Buchele
Professor Emeritus of Agricultural
Engineering
Buchele Associates, Ltd.
239 Parkridge Circle
Ames, IA 50010

Mr. James Cain
Energy Specialist
Iowa State Extension
EES Building, Harbor Road
Ames, IA 50011

Mr. Roger Chapman
Iowa Disability Prevention Project
Iowa Department of Public Health
460 Henry Mall
Des Moines, IA 53704

Mr. Kenneth Choquette
Iowa Department of Public Health
Lucas State Cffice Building
Des Moines, IA 50316

Ms. Peggy Clarahan
Nurse Consultant
Iowa Dept of Public Health, OHNAC
1804 Hemlock
Atlantic, IA 50022

Ms. Kathy Comito
Network Coordinator
Mercy Hospital
6th and University
Des Moines, IA 50312

Ms. Sharon Cook
Program Planner
Iowa Department of Public Health
321 E. 12th Street
Des Moines, IA 50319

Mr. Thomas Cook
Professor
University of lowa
2633 Syeindler Building
Iowa City, IA 52242

Ms. Debbi Cooper
Administrator Assistant
lowa Department of Public Health
Lucas Building
Des Moines, lA 50319

Mr. Ray H. Crammond
Consulting Engineer
Crammond Enaineerina Comoanv
217 Center Street, P.0,Box 197 e
Elgin, IA 52141

Dr. Russell Currier
Bureau Chief of Environmental
Epidemiology and Chronic Diseases
Iowa Department of Public Health
Lucas State Office Building
Des Moines, IA 50319-0075

Mr. Mark Dagoberg
President
Methodist Health Network of Iowa
1200 Pleasant Street
Des Moines, IA 50309

Mr. L. Graham Dameron
Director
Johnson County Department of Public
Health
1105 Gilbert Court
Iowa City, IA 52240

Mr. W.M. Davis
Box 421
Ottomwa, IA 52501

Dr. E. Elaine De Boef
Occupational Nurse Consultant
Iowa State Depattmeny of Public
Health, Disease Prevention
Route 1, Box 59
Pella, IA 50219

Ms. Pam Delagardelle
Director Farm Partners
Sartori Memorial Hospital
6th and College
Cedar Falls, IA 50613

Dr. Pat DeSotel
ER Supervisor
Washington County Hospital
Route 3
Washington, IA 52353

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Participants

Mr. Gary DiGiuseppe
NAFB Farm Safety Chairman
KWMT Radio
Box 578
Fort Dodge, IA 50501

Dr. Kelley J. Donham
Professor
Department of Preventive Medicine and
Environmental Health
University of Iowa College of Medicine
Iowa City, IA 52242

Mr. John P. Dorrian
Mayor
City of Des Moines
400 E. 1st
Des Moines, IA 50309

Ms. Diane Dotson
Network Coordinator
Mercy Hospital Medical Center
6th and
Des Moines, IA 50314

Mr. Gary L. Downey
Assistant Vice President of Industry
Relations
Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company
l-80 at Highway 146
Grinnell, IA 50112

Dr. Ronald D. Eckoff
Director, Division of Family and
Community Health
Iowa Department of Public Health
Lucas Building
Des Moines, IA 50319

Ms. Elizabeth Elliott
Associate Vice Provost for Extension
Iowa State University
110 Curtiss Hall
Ames, IA 50011

Dr. L.J. Filer
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Iowa
College of Medicine
Iowa City, IA 52242

Mr. Tom Filer
Sales Manager
Des Moines Marriott
700 Grand Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50309

Ms. Charlene Finck
Machinery Editor
Farm Journal
3211 Sheridan Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50310

Mr. Raymond W. Forsythe
Director of Safety
Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance
Company
5400 University
West Des Moines, IA 50265

Mr. Dan Frieberg
Executive vice President
lowa Fertilizer and Chemical Association
900 Des Moines Street, Suite 150
Des Moines, IA 50309

Dr. Laurence Fuortes
University of lowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

Ms. Jane Gatzke
Safety Administrative Assistant
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
4445 Corporate Drive, Box 6500
West Des Moines, IA 50265

Ms. Jane Gay
Project Coordinator
AMRF - Oakdale
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

Dr. James Gilley
Head Professor
Agricultural Engineering Department
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011

Mr. Rodney Goodwin
Director of Research
National Pork Producers Council
Box 10383
Des Moines, IA 50306

Dr. Thomas H. Greiner
Associate Professor, Agricultural
Engineering Department
Iowa State University
200 C Davidson Hall
Ames, IA 500113080

Mr. Alonzo L. Griffin
OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor
210 Walnut Street
Des Moines, IA 50309

Mr. John Haan
Industrial Hygienist
Iowa Division of Labor
3804 1 lth Street
Des Moines, IA 50313

Ms. Charlotte Halverson
Rural Outwash Coordinator
Mercy Health Center
Mercy Drive
Dubuque, IA 52001

Mr. Monte Hamilton
Paramedic
Mary Greeley Medical Center
117 11th Street
Ames, IA 50010

Mr. Mark Hanna
Extension Agriculture Engineer
lowa State University
200 Davidson Hall
Ames, IA 50011

Ms. Marcia Heggen
Director
Occupational Health and Wellness -
Agricare
350 4th Avenue
Marshalltown, IA 50158

Mr. Brian Herbst
Senior Industrial Hygienist
Iowa Division of Labor
1000 East Grand
Des Moines, IA 50319

Ms. Marilyn Hibbs
Director of Communications
Time Frame Productions
3305 104th Street
Des Moines, IA 50322

Mr. Charles Hooper
Senior Industrial Hygienist
Iowa Division of Labor
1000 East Grand
Des Moines, IA 50319-0209

Ms. Sue Ellen Hosch
University of Iowa
pcg;ional Medicine Clinic
Iowa City, IA 52242

Ms. Kathy Houser
L & W Feeders
Route 1, Box 51
Watkins, IA 52354

Mr. Thomas J. llax
Environmental Coordinator
Iowa State University
204 Davidson Hall
Ames, IA 50010

Ms. Anne Jackson
Industrial Hygienist
Iowa Division of Labor
1000 E. Grand Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50319

Ms. Sheryi Jenko
President
Iowa FFA Association
BOX 400, 301 Center Avenue, S.
Mitchellville, IA 50169

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National Participants

Mr. Dale Johnson
Director of Publications
Iowa Farm Bureau
5400 University
West Des Moines, IA 56265

Mr. Jeff Jones
Safety Engineer
OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor
210 Walnut, Room 815
Des Moines, IA 50309

Ms. Shirley K. Jones
Coordinator SPRAINS
Iowa Department of Public Health
Lucas Building
Des Moines, IA 50319-0075

Mr. Troy Karns
The Greater Des Moines Convention
and Visitors Bureau
Tow Ruan Center
601 Locust Street, Suite 200-H
Des Moines, IA 50309

Ms. Bonnie Kay
Director of Occupational Health
American Lung Association of Iowa
1025 Ashworth Road, Suite 410
West Des Moines, IA 50265

Ms. Tracy Keninger
Rural Rehabilitation Specialist
Easter Seals Farm Program
8432 Franklin, X19
Des Moines, IA 50325

Mr. Craig T. Keough
EMS Field Consultant
Mercy Health Center
Mercy Drive
Dubuque, IA 52001

Ms. Carolyn Kern
Nursing Instructor
Iowa Methodist Medical Center
12th and Pleasant
Des Moines, IA 50309

Ms. Janet Kinney
National Board Member
Communicating for Agriculture
Route 3, Box 41
Alden, IA 50006

Mr. Michael David Kramer
University of Iowa
Department of Preventive Medicine
Iowa City, IA 52242

Mr. Burton C. Kross
Associate Director
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

Ms. Wendy E. Kuhse
Nurse Consultant
lowa State Department of Public Health
203 Benton Street
Garnavillo, IA 52949

Ms. Barbara Lacina
Research Assistant
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

Ms. Diane Lenning
Administrator
Humboldt County Public Health Nursing
Services
Courthouse
Dakota City, IA 50529

Mr. Charles Larson
Farm Program
Iowa Easter Seals
Box 4CrO2
Des Moines, IA 50333

Mr. C.W. Lawrence
Farm Safetv for *Just Kids"
130 E. 1st Street
Earlham, IA 50072

Ms. Carol Lehtola
Agricultural Engineer
Iowa State University
102 Davidson Hall
Ames, IA 50011

Ms. Stephanie Leonard
Industrial Hygienist
University of Iowa
124 AMRF
Iowa City, IA 52242

Ms. Linda Leverenz
Educations Specialist
University of Iowa
104 AMRF - Oakdale
Iowa City, IA 52242

Dr. Leonard A. Levy
Dean

University of Osteopathic Med and
Sci/Coll of Podiatric Med Surgery
2150 Grand Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50312

Ms. Mary Cl. Lewis
Research Assistant
University of Iowa
Department of Preventive Medicine and
Environmental Health
206 AMRF
Iowa City, IA 52319

Dr. Louise Lex
State Health Planner
Iowa Department of Public Health
Lucas Building
Des Moines, IA 50319

Ms. Shirley Long
Writer
The Write Touch
306 NW Bayberry
Ankemy, IA 60021

Ms. Barbara J. Lykins
Director Women's Activities and
Consumer Education
lowa Farm Bureau Federation
5400 Avenue
West Des Moines, IA 50265

Ms. Juleea Martindale
Grants Coordinator
Mercy Hospital Medical Center
6th and University
Des Moines, IA 503143190

Mr. Dennis McClure
Safety Coordinator
United AgriSeeds
Box 637
Marshalltown, IA 50158

Ms. Lois McDermott
Registered Nurse
Agricultural Health and Safety
Route 2, Box 165
Harlan, IA 51537

Ms. Monica McGregor
Greene County 4-H Club
Route 2, Box 105
Jefferson, IA 50129

Dr. Kris Mclntee
Nurse Consultant
lowa State Dept of Health
Disease Prevention
2625 West Fourth Street
Waterloo, IA 50701

Ms. Karen McMahon
Contributing Editor
Hogs Today Magazine
1221 Oak Park Boulevard
Cedar Falls, IA 50613

Mr. Al Meier
Commissioner
Division of Labor
loo0 E. Grand
Des Moines, IA 50319

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Participants

Dr. James A Merchant
Director, Institute of Agricultural
Medicine and Occupational Health
University of Iowa
AMRF, Oakdale Campus
Iowa City, IA 52242

Mr. Vernon M. Meyer
Professor
Iowa State University
201 Davidson Hall
Ames, IA 500113080

Ms. Elizabeth Ruth Miller
Assistant Resident Scientist
Institute for Agricultural Medicine
University of Iowa
AMRF, Oakdale Campus
Iowa City, IA 52242

Ms. Malinda Miller
Field Editor
Iowa Farmer Today
P.O. Box 5279
Cedar Rapids, IA 52406

Mr. Jerry L. Miner
Safety Manager
Pioneer Hi-Bred
4445 Corporate Drive, Box 6500
West Des Moines, IA 50265

Ms. Linda Moyna
Director of Communications
Health Education
Ellsworth Municioal Hosoital
110 Rocksylvania '
Iowa Falls, IA 50126

Mr. Joseph L. Mullen
Industrial Hygienist
OSHA
1000 E. Grand
Des Moines, IA 50319

Mr. Cliff Mullenberg
OSHA
loo0 E. Grand
Des Moines, IA 50319

Mr. Don Nanneman
Occupational Health Nurse
Central Iowa Association of
Occupational Health Nurses
212 E. Clay
Osceola, IA 50213

Mr. Jens Nissen
Industrial Hygienist
Iowa Division of Labor
1000 E. Grand
Des Moines, IA 50319

Ms. Nancy A Norman
Associate Director
Rural Health Research Center
Iowa State University
1065 Elm Hall
Ames, IA 50011

Ms. Linda Cgilvie
University of lowa
Department of Preventive Medicine
AMRF, Cakdale Campus
Iowa City, IA 52242

Dr. Gayle Olson
Program Assistant
Institute of Agricultural Medicine and
Occupational Health
University of Iowa, Cakdale Campus
Winfield, IA 52242

Mr. Ted Ondracek
Senior Industrial Hygienist
Iowa Division of Labor
1OOCl E. Grand
Des Moines, IA 50319

Mr. Howard Oudman
Research Assistant
Iowa State University
925 Arizona Avenue
Ames, IA 50011

Mr. Shashi H. Pate1
Industrial Hygienist
lowa Division of Labor
1000 East Grand Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50319

Mr. Merlin Plagge
President
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
5400 Avenue
West Des Moines, IA 50265

Dr. Wrlliam Popendorf
Professor
Institute of Agricultural Medicine
University of Iowa
134 AMRF
Iowa City, IA 52319

Mr. Jim Probasco
Industrial Hygienist
Iowa Division of Labor
1000 East Grand
Des Moines, IA 50316

Dr. August Ralston
Professor, College of Business
Iowa State
368 Carver Hall
Ames, IA 50011

Mr. Maurice Rarick
Industrial Hygienist
Iowa Division of Labor
loo0 East Grand Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50316

Mr. Robert D. Ray
Chairman, National Advisory Committee
on Rural Health Policy
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Iowa
636 Grand Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50309

Mr. Craig Redshaw
Executive Director
American Lung Association of Iowa
1025 Ashworth Road, #410
West Des Moines, IA 50265

Mr. David Rosenau
Industrial Hygienist
Univresity of Iowa
124 AMRF
Oakdale, IA 52319

Dr. Eric Saikaly
Doctor
MacFarland Clinic
3012 Norbridge Parkway
Ames, IA 50010

Dr. Heidi Saikaly
Epidemiologist
MacFarland Clinic
3012 Norbridge Parkway
Ames, IA 50010

Mr. Steve Schaaf
Environmental Affairs Manager
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
7301 NW 62nd Avenue
Johnston, IA 50131

Ms. Leah Schade
Safety Inspector
Iowa Division of Labor
1000 East Grand
Des Moines, IA 53019

Mr. Charles V. Schwab
Assistant Professor
Iowa State University
207 Davidson Hall
has, IA 50011

Mr. Dennis Schwitters
Iowa-Nebraska Farm
Equipment Association
1311 50th Street, P.O. Box 65840
West Des Moines, IA 50265-0840

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National Participants

Dr. Mustafa Selim
Assistant Professor
University of Iowa
137 AMRF
Iowa City, IA 52242

Ms. Carolyn Sheridan
AgriSafe
Spencer Municipal Hospital
1113 First Avenue East
Spencer, IA 51301

Ms. Ann Short
Iowa Department of Public Health
321 East 12th
Lucas Building
Des Moines, IA 50319

Mr. Daryl Siebens
Vice President
IA Farm Bureau
Route 1, Box 155
Akron, IA 51001

Ms. Carol L. Sipfle
Director of Programs
American Lung Association of Iowa
1025 Ashworth Road, Suite 140
Des Moines, IA 50265

Mr. Stephen J. Slater
Senior Industrial Hygienist
Iowa Department of Labor
1000 East Grand
Des Moines, IA 50319

Dr. Steve Soderlund
Director, Product Development and
Regulatory Affairs
Microbial Genetics. A Division of
Pioneer Hi-Bred International
4601 Westown Parkway, Suite 120
West Des Moines, IA 50265

Ms. Dorothy Sonksen
Wellness Coordinator
Burgess Memorial Hospital
1600 Diamond Avenue
Onawa, IA 51040

Mr. Art Spies
Vice President
Iowa Hospital Association
100 East Grand, Suite 100
Des Moines, IA 50309

Ms. Connie Stangl
AgriSafe
Spencer Municipal Hospital
1113 1st Avenue East
Spencer, IA 50515

Ms. Chrystal Stanley
Assistant Director
Easter Seal Farm Program
P.O. Box4002 -
Des Moines, IA 50333

Ms. Michelle Stirling
Community Health Educator
fldora Regional Medical Center
2413 Edgington Avenue
Eldora, IA 50126

Ms. Janis Stone
Extension Specialist
Iowa State University
141 Le Baron Hall
Ames, IA 50011

Ms. Cathy Stotts
Director Clinical Services
Lucas County Health Center
Route 3, P.O. Box 43A
Chariton, IA 50042

Mr. James Strohman
Executive Assistant
Iowa Attorney General's Cffice
Hoover State office Building
Des Moines. IA 50319-0114

Mr. Michael L. Swanson
Loss Control Manager
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
6800 Pioneer Parkway Box 212
Johnston, IA 50131

Ms. Cheryl Tevis
Senior Farm Issue Editor
Successful Farming Magazine
Meredith Corporation, 1716 Locust
Des Moines, IA 50338

Ms. Connie Thompson
Director and Nurse of the Agricultural
Health and Safety Center
Myrtue Memorial Hospital
Route 2, Box 57
Harlan, IA 51528

Dr. Peter S. Thorne
Institute of Agricultural Medicine and
Occupational Health
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-5000

Mr. Robin Ungar
Program Associate
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52240

Ms. Terrie Urban
Wellness Coordinator
Montgomery County Memorial Hospital
2301 Eastern Avenue
Red Oak, IA 51566

Ms. Stephanie Vanlier
Director Grant Programs
Mercy Hospital Medical Center
Mercy Foundation
Sixth and University
Des Moines, IA 50314-3190

Ms. Susan F. Voehl
Agricultural Nurse
Nobles and Rock County Public HE
Route 2, Box 48
lake Park, IA 51347

Ms. Jennifer S. Vol
Advanced Care Coordinator
Iowa Western Community College
2700 College Road, Box 4-C
Council Bluffs, IA 51502

Mr. Mark Walker
Agriculture Health and Safety
Coordinator
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital
84 Beaumont Drive
Mason City, IA 50401

Ms. Teri Walker
PHN
Wayne County Public Health
Box 102
Corydon, IA 50060-1522

Ms. Janet Watt
Respiratory Therapist
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52245

Mr. Allen Weller
Assistant Director of Safety
Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance
Company
5400 Avenue
West Des Moines, IA 50265

Ms. Sherri Wrldin
EMT-I
Madison County Ambulance
721 West Jefferson
Winterset, IA 50273

Ms. Therese Willkomm
Director
Easter Seal Farm Program
P.O. Box 4002
Des Moines, IA 50333

Dr. Wendy K. WIntersteen
Assistant Professor
Extension Entomologist
Iowa State University
109 Insectary, ISU
Ames, IA 50011

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Participants

Ms. Debbie YOUnt
Wellness Coordinator
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
5400 Avenue
West Des Moines, IA 50265

Mr. Chris Zimmerman
Physical Therapist
University of Iowa
2600 Steindler Building
Iowa City, IA 52242

Dr. Craig Zwerling
Associate Professor
Preventive Medicine and Environmental
Health
University of Iowa
124 AMRF Oakdale Campus
Iowa City, IA 52242-5000

KANSAS
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Mr. Harold T. Bach
Safety Specialist
U.S. Department of Labor
1437 Tomahawk Lane
Olathe, KS 66062

Mr. Michael H. Bradshaw
Kansas State
Extension Service
343 Justin Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506

Mr. Chris Chitwood
Executive Assistant
AgriPro Biosciences, Inc.
6700 Antioch, Suite 100
Shawnee Mission, KS 66210

Mr. Stanley Clark
Head, Agricultural Engineering
Department
Kansas State
Seaton Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506

Ms. Kathy Collmer
Educational Materials Specialist
Agricultural Safety and Health Program,
Kansas State
Seaton Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506

Mr. Marvin H. Hachmeister
Kansas State
Extension of Agricultural Engineering
237 Seaton Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506-2917

Dr. Stephen Konz
Professor
k%&rn;;;eof Industrial Engineering,
Durland Hall
Manhattan, KS 665065101

Mr. John k Kramer
Extension Assistant, Farm Safety
Kansas State Universuty
Seaton Hall
Manhatten, KS 66506
9131532-5813

Mr. David F. Vvillsie
Director

State of Kansas University
Division of Safety and Health
512 SW 6th Street
Topeka, KS 66603

Dr. Cindy Wood
Epidemiologist
Department of Health and Environment
109 SW 9th Street, Suite 605
Topeka, KS 66812-1271

KENTUCKY
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Dr. S.W. Horstman
Associate Professor
University of Kentucky
College of Medicine
800 Rose Street, Room MS129X
Lexington, KY 40538a84

Ms. Susan Jones
Western Kentucky
Department of Nursing
AC112A
Bowling Green, KY 42101

Dr. Robert McKnight
Assistant Professor
University of Kentucky
MS 12QX
Lexington, KY 40536-0084

Mr. Larry Piercy
Extension Safety Specialist
University of Kentucky
Agricultural Engineering Building
Room 128
Lexington, KY 40546-0276

MAINE
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Mr. Stephen C. Shannon
Director, Occupational
Safety and Health
Maine Bureau of Health
157 Capitol Street
Augusta, ME 04333

Ms. Rhonda Webber
Planning and Research Association
Maine Bureau of Health
State House Station 11
Augusta, ME 04901

MARYLAND
U"-III-,YIW.....-..*

Dr. Aaron Blair

Chief, Occupational
Studies Section
National Cancer Institute
Executive Plaza North, Room 418
Bethesda, MD 20892

Dr. Gershon Fishbein
Publisher

Genetic Engineering Letter
8750 Georgia Avenue, Suite 124
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Mr. Jeffrey Human
Director, Office of Rural Health Policy
U.S. Public Health Service
5600 Fishers Lane
Parklawn Building, Room 14-22
Rockville, MD 20857

Dr. Rice C. Leach
Chief of Staff
Cffice of the Surgeon General
USPHS
Room 18-67
WOO Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857

Mr. Mark A. Veazie
Johns Hopkins Injury Prevention Center
62-i North Broadway, Room 557
Baltimore, MD 21205

Mr. Robert Wright
Chief, Utilization Expenditures Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
6525 Belcrest Road, Room 850
Hyattsville, MD 20782

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MICHIGAN
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Mr. Dan Lauwers
Assistant Program
Director
W.K. Kellogg
Foundation
400 N. Avenue
Battle Creek, MI

Ms. Geraldine Ft. Smith
Coordinator
"Farming Safely in the Thumb"
Huron Co. Health Department
1142 S. Van Dykr
Bad Axe, MI 48413

MINNESOTA

Dr. Debora Boyle
University of Minnesota
1635 W, Skillman, #2
Roseville, MN 55113

Mr. Bruce Chadwick
Market Manager
3M
St. Paul, MN

Mr. Willis Eken
Chairman
National Farmer's Union Executive
Board
St. Paul, MN

Dr. Susan Goodwing Gerberich
Director of Environmental and
Occupational Health
University of Minnesota School of Public
Health
420 Delaware Street, SE, Box 197
UMHC
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Dr. Ian A. Greaves
Professor
University of Minnesota
Box 197, 420 Delaware St.,
Minneapolis, MN 55455

SE

Ms. Stephanie Harnick
Manager, Occupational Safety and
Health
Northrup King Company
7500 Olson Memorial Highway
Golden Valley, MN 55427

Mr. Mark Horton
Environmental Affairs Office
Northrup King Company
7500 Olson Memorial Highway
Golden Valley, MN 55427

Ms. Linda Olson Keller
Consultant
Minnesota Department of Health
717 SE Delaware
Minneapolis, MN 55446

Ms. Brenda Len2
Publlo Health Nurse
Meeker, M&rod, Sibley Community
Health Service
804 11 th Street E
Glencoe, MN 55336

Ms. Catherlne Lexau
Project Coordlnator
Minnesota Department of Health/CHS
Division
717 SE Delaware
Minneapolis, MN 55446

Mr. Mark Melander
Consultant
Northrup King Company
7500 Olson Memorial Highway
Golden Valley, MN 55427

Ms. Colleen Nelson
Public Health Nurse
Quin County Community Health
Services
P.O. Box 248
Newfolden, MN 56738

Mr. John M. Shutske
Extension Safety Specialist
University of Minnesota
1390 Eckles Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108

Mr. Ray Sinclair
Television Production Specialist
NIOSH, CDC
2728 Sheldon Street
Roseville, MN 55113

Mr. Steven Suchy
Safety Engineer
Cargill, Inc.
P.O. Box 9300
Minneapolis, MN 55446

Ms. Kelly Sullivan
Editor
Pro Act
4947 Weld Canyon Drive
Woodbury, MN 55125

Mr. Aaron K. Trippler
Vice President
Communication for Agriculture
2626 E. 82nd Street, X325
Bloomington, MN 55425

Ms. Peg Zonk
Managing Editor
Farm Industry News Magazine
7900 International Drive
Minneapolis, MN 55425

MISSISSIPPI
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Dr. George C. Fun
Medical Doctor  a
Misslsslppl State
Medical Aawolatlon
270 YA Zoo Avenue
Clarkedale, MS 38614

Mr. Willlam Slmp@xr
3330 Liberty Street
Canton, MS 39046

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MISSOURI

Mr. David E. Baker    I
Extension Safety and
Health Speolalist
University of Mlssourl
205 Agricultural Engineering Building
Columbia, MO 65211

Mr. Frank Berry
USPHS

Regional Office - Region VII
601 E. 12th Street
Kansas City, MO 64106

Mr. Charles F. Brundage
Product Safety Engineer
De&-Allis Corporation
627 South Cottage
Independence, MO 64950

Ms. Sandy Clarkson
Administrator
Cariton County Health Department
P.O. Box 214
Keytesville, MO 65261

Ms. Claudine Frazeer
Administrator
Adam Co. Health Department

516 South Main
Kukswelle, MO 63507

Mr. Russell H. Hahn
Director of Standards
American Society of Agricultural
Engineers
2950 Niles Road
St. Joseph, MO 49085

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Participants

Ms. Judy Heffernan
Executive Director of Heartland Network
for Town and Rural Ministries
University of Missourl
201 Sociology Building
Columbla, MO 65211

Dr. Gary Kukulka
Senior Staff Associate
National Rural Health Association
301 E. Armour Boulevard, Suite 420
Kansas City, MO 64111

Mr. John T. Phlllips
Regional Administrator
U.S. Department of Labor
911 Walnut Street
Kansas City, MO

Dr. W. Michael Rogers
Dlstrlct Director
US Food and Drug Administration
1009 Cherry Street
Kansas City, MO 64106

Mr. John Rummel
FFA Advisor
Stockton High School
Route 1, P.O. Box 190
Stockton, MO 65785

Dr. C. Saran
Professor
Central Missouri State
Warrensburg, MO 64093-5030

Mr. Jamie Swaggerty
FFA Safety Chairperson
Stockton High School
Route 1, P.O. Box 190
Stockton, MO 65785

Ms. Patti Van Tuinen
Assistant Director
Office of Injury Control
Missouri Department of Health
P.O. Box 570
Jefferson Chy, MO 65102

NEBRASKA
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Ms. Joleen Huneke
Health Educator
Nebraska Department of Health
Health Promotion and Education
301 Centennial Mall South
Lincoln, NE 68509-5007

Ms. Melissa D. Leypoldt
Nebraska State Health Department
301 Centennial Mall South
Box 95007
Lincoln, NE 68521

Mr. Bryan Rettig
Research Analyst
Nebraska Department of Health
301 Centennial Mall S., Box 95.007
Lincoln, NE 68509

Mr. Rollln D. Schnleder
Extenslon Safety Speoiallst
University of Nebraska
222 L.W. Chase Hall
Lincoln, NE 68583Xl726

Mr. Richard Slama
Manager, Special Servloea
Lincoln-Lancaster County Health
Department
22W St. Mary's Avenue
Uncoln, NE 68502

Dr. Susanna Von Essen
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Nebraska Medlcal Center
600 South 42nd Street
Omaha, NE 68198-2465

Ms. Kathy Ward
Chronic Disease Dlrector
Nebraska Department of Health
301 Centennial Mall South
Uncoln, NE 68509

Dr. Dennis Weisenburger
University of Nebraska Medical Center,
Department of Pathology &
Microbiology
600 South 42nd Street
Omaha, NE 68022

NEW JERSEY
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Dr. Zane R. Helsel
Chair. Deot of    V

Agricultural and
Resource Management Specialists
Rutgers University
Martin Hall. Room 111, Cook Campus,
P.O. Box 231
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

NEW YORK
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Ms. Angela DeVito,
MSCM

Associate Director, Divislon of
Occupational Medicine
State of New York at Stony Brook
HSCL3086
Stony Brook, NY 117948636

Mr. Donald DiBello
Director, Member Services
Farm Family Insurance Company
P.0. Box 656
Albany, NY 12201

Mr. Davis E. Hill
Executlve Dlrector
Farmedlo National Training Center
Alfred State College
Alfred, NY 14802

Dr. Matthew Manrel
AttendIng Phyalclan
Oneonta Health Center
50 Dletz Street
Oneonta, NY 13820

Dr. John J. May
Director, Bassett Farm Safety and
Health Project
New York Center for Agricultural
Medicine and Health
One Atwell Road
Cooperstown, NY 13326

Mr. John 0. Pollock
Executive Director
NYS Rural Health and
Safety Council, Inc.
334 Riley-Robb Hall, Cornell
Ithaca, NY 14853-5701

Dr. David S. Pratt
Director
New York Center for Agricultural
Medicine and Health
One Atwell Road
Cooperstown, NY 13326

NORTH
CAROLINA
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Mr. James A. Fangman
Environmental and Safety Specialist
CIBA-GEIGY Corporation
P.O. Box 18300
Greensboro, NC 27419

Dr. James R. Fouts
Senior Scientific Advisor to the Director
NIEHS
A2-03, P.O. Box 12233
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

Mr. Robert L Mclymore
Extension Safety Specialist
North Carolina State
Box 7625
Raleigh, NC 27695-7625

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Ms. Susan A. Randolph
Occupational Health Nursing consultant
DEHNR Occupational Health Section
P.O. Box 27687
Raleigh, NC 2761 l-7687

Dr. Michael D. Schulman
North Carolina State
Department of Sociology
Box 8107
Raleigh, NC 276958107

NORTH DAKOTA
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Mr. Rodney A Gilmore
Injury Control Program Manager
North Dakota State Deoartment of
Health and Consolidated Labs
600 East Boulevard, 2nd Floor, Judicial
Wing
Bismark, ND 585054200

Ms. Ramona Eisenbarth, RN
Agricultural Occupational Health Nurse
Custer District Health Unit
P.O. Box 185
Mandan, ND 58562

Ms. Cheryl Hagen
Agriculture Occupational Health Nurse
Community Health Nurse
401 Third Avenue North
Fargo, ND 58102-4839

Ms. Malinda Lindstrom
Safety Coordinator
North Dakota Farm Bureau
1101 1st Avenue North
Fargo, ND 58107

Mr. George Maher
North Dakota State
Extension Service
Box 5626
Fargo, ND 58105

Ms. Joyce Sayler
Agricultural Occupational Health Nurse
Custer District Health Unit
P.O. Box 185
Mandan, ND 58554

Ms. Lillian Thomson
Ag. Occupational Health Nurse
Grand Forks Public Health
P.O. Box 1518
Grand Forks, ND 58206-1518

OHIO

Dr. Ray Aldetfer
NIOSH. CDC
Hamilton Laboratory
4676 Columbia Parkwav,
               _-
R-16
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Mr. Jonathan Bair
Student
Smithvilie High School
331 South Summit Street
Smithville, OH 44677

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Ms. Sallie S. Bair
Registered Nurse
Wayne County Health Department
203 South Walnut Street

Wooster, OH 44691

Dr. Thomas L Bean
Safety Leader
Ohio State (Cooperative Extension)
590 Woody Hayes Drive X213
Columbus, OH 43210

Ms. Virginia Behrens
NIOSH, CDC
Taft Laboratory
4676 Columbia Parkway, R-18
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Dr. Raymond E. Biagini
NIOSH, CDC
Taft Laboratory
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Mr. Philip J. Bierbaum
Director. Division of Phvsical Sciences

and Engineering -
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45251

Mr. Gary Brumfield
FFA Safety Chairperson
Amanda-Clearcreek High School
414 North School Street
Amanda, OH 43102

Dr. Geoffrey M. Calvert
Medical Epidemiologist
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway, R-16
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Ms. Lorri Cameron
Epidemiologist
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway, R-21
Cincinnati. OH 45226

Dr. Alexander Cohen
Deputy Director, Division of Biomedical
and Behavioral Sciences
NIOSH, CDC
4476 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Ms. L Barbara Connally
Public Health Analyst
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway, R-42
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Dr. John J. Coumbis
NIOSH, CDC
DTMD
Taft Building, Room B48, MS Cl2
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Dr. Laurence J. Doemeny
Deputy Director, Division of Physical
Science and Engineering
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Ms. Janet Ehiers
University of Cincinnati
Occupational Health Masters Candidate
3125 Locust Log Lane
Cincinnati, OH 45239

Dr. Lawrence J. Fine
Director, Division of Surveillance,
Hazards Evaluations, and Field Studies
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Dr. Marilyn A. Flngerhut
Chief, IWSB, DSHEFS
NIOSH, CM;
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Mr. Jerome P. Resch
Industrial Hygienist
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway, C-15
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Mr. Todd M. Frazier
Chief. DSHEFS
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway, R-17
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Dr. Eugene Freund, Jr.
Medical Officer
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway, R-21
Cincinnati, OH 45226

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Participants

Dr. Jiin Ger
Visiting Scientist
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Mr. Walter Haag
Associate Director
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Dr. William E. Halperin
Associate Director
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway, R-41
Cincinnati. OH 45226-1998

Mr. Gerald A. Heath
Administrative Officer
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Dr. Robert F. Herrick
Associate Director
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Mr. Stephen 0. Hudock
Safety Engineer
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Ms. Janice M. Huy
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Ms. Nina Lalich
Chief, Illness Effects Section
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkwy, R-18
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Mr. Robert L. Larkin
Chief
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway, R-3
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Mr. Tim Lawrence
Extension Associate
The Ohio State
590 Woody Hayes Drive
Columbus, OH 43002

Mr. Edward D. Leninger
Deputy Director
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45248

Mr. Steven W. Lenhat-t
Industrial Hygienist
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway, R-l 1
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Mr. Robert Alan Lunsford
Supervisory Research Chemist
NIOSH, CDC
4678 Columbia Parkway, R-7
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Mr. Robert Mason
Biologist
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45216

Mr. Leroy Mickelsen
Chemical Engineer
NIOSH, CDC-
7956 Blairhouse Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45244

Mr. Charles Miller
FFA Advisor
Amanda-Clearcreek FFA
414 North School Street
Amanda, OH 43102

Ms. Charlene Maloney
NIOSH, CDC
Robert A. Taft Laboratories
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45213

Ms. Vivian Morgan
NIOSH, CDC
Robert A. Taft Laboratories
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati. OH 45213

Dr. Richard W. Niemeier
Director, Divison of Standards
Development and Technology
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Mr. David H. Pedersen
Industrial Hygienist
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway, R-19
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Ms. Judith Pflaumer
Clinical Nurse Specialist
University of Cincinnati
3747 Wood Trail
Cincinnati, OH

Mr. Judd C. Posner
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Dr. Thomas C. Purcell
Director, Division of Training and
Manpower Development -
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Dr. Peter G. Rentos
Scientist Director
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Dr. Carol Hogfoss Rubin
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway, R-21
Cincinnati, OH 45215

Dr. John M. Russo
Research Psychologist
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway, C-24
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Mr. Wayne T. Sanderson
Industrial Hygienist/Epidemiologist
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati. OH 45226

Dr. Russell E. Savage
Chief. Environmental Toxicoloav
NIOSH, CDC            -<

4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226-l 998

Dr. Paul A. Schulte
Chief, Screening and Notification
Section
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway, R-42
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Dr. Paul J. Seligman
Chief, Medical Section
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Mr. John P. Sestito
Assistant Chief, Surveillance Branch,
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway, R-17
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Mr. Joseph A. Seta
Supervisory Industrial Hygienist
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226

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National Participants

Ms. Christa L. Themann
Audiologist
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway, C27
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Dr. J. Ft. Wrlkins, Ill
Associate Professor
Ohio State University
Department of Preventive Medicine
Columbus, OH 43210

Mr. Ralph D. Zumwalde
Chief, Document Development Branch
NIOSH, CDC
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226

OKLAHOMA
,.....,_.,.....................................

Mr. Edward M. Barnes
Extension Engineer
Oklahoma State
214 AG Hall
Stillwater, OK 740780469

Mr. Ronald J. Dahlgren
Senior Broadcast Coordinator
Oklahoma State
105 Public Information Building
Stillwater, OK 74078

Dr. Willard Downs
Professor
Extension Agriculture Engineer
Oklaloma State University
214 AG Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078-0469

Ms. Kathy Howard
TV Producer/Director
Oklahoma State University
Agricultural Communications
Stillwater, OK 74079

Dr. Pat Lewis
Extension Safety Specialist
Oklahoma State University
219 AG Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078-0469

Ms. Judy Oskam
Oklahoma State University
214 AG Hall
Stillwater, OK 74074

Dr. Jerry L Purswell
Professor
University of Oklahoma
202 West Boyd
Norman. OK 73019

OREGON
. . . . . . . . I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mr. Clifford 0. King
Controller
International Seeds, Inc.
P.O. Box 168
Halsey, OR 97348

Mr. Tomas Schwabe
Aoricultural Health Supervisor
Ok-OSHA
3867 Wolverine Street, NE
Salem, OR 97305

Dr. Myron Shenk
Interim Farm Safety Specialist
Oregon State
100 Gilmore Hall
Corvalles, OR 97331-3906

/r

PENNSYLVANIA
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..e... I . . . . . . . . . . ..w... L-J

Ms. Karen Freiberg
Farm Journal
230 W. Washington Square
Philadelphia, PA 19105

Mr. Ronald McAllister
Probe Evaluation Supervisor
Ford New Holland
500 Diller Avenue, Box 1895
MS 636
New Holland, PA 17557

Dr. Dennis J. Murphy
Professor of Agriculture and Biology
Penn State University
Agriculture Engineering Building
Room 221
Park, PA 16802

PUERTO RICO
...I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .._......~..................

Dr. Pable M. Calerio
Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico
Special Assistant to the Secretary
Department of Labor and Human
Resources
505 Munoz Rivera Avenue
San Juan, PR 00918

Lcdo. Jesus A. Caro Lug0
Sub Secretario
Estado libre Asociadodde
Deaptamento Del Trabajo
y Recursos Humanos
Edificio prudencio Riveria Martinez
Avenidea Munoz Rivera
506-Piso 21
Hato Rey, PR 00918

SOUTH CAROLINA
. . . . ,....... .-. I. .-.. a..v..^..T.w..I-.^I^

Dr. Mark A. Purschwitz
Extension Safety
Specialist
Clemson University
212 M&darns Hall
Clemson, SC 296340357
8w656-4666
=I-

SOUTH DAKOTA
,..^ . . . . . . "... -.-. .,.^ . . . . . . . . "..r.^.^r

Mr. James Ceglian
Director
Engineering Extension
South Dakota State University

I

Box 507
Brookings, SD 57007-Cr597

Dr. Thomas M. Dean
Medical Director
Tri County Health Care
P.O. Box 489, 605 1st Street
Nessington Springs, SD 57382

Dr. G. R. Durland
Extension Agricultural Engineering
South Dakota State University
Ag Eng Dept
Brooking& SD 57007

Mr. Larry Tidemann
Agricultural Program Leader
Cooperative Extension Service
South Dakota State University
Ag Hall, 152
Brookings, SD 57007

TENNESSEE
. ..~ . . . . I . . . . ..*........................

Ms. Nancy Dempsey
Assistant Professor, Department of
Nursing
Austin Peay State
P.O. Box 4658
Clarksville, TN 37044

Dr. B.D. Hale
Public Health Officer
Haywood County Health Department
950 East Main
Brownsville, TN 38012

Mr. Joel Lown
Extension Safety Specialist
Agricultural Engineering Dept
University of Tennessee
P.O. Box 1071
Knoxville, TN 37901

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Participants

Mr. Timoth G. Prather
Assistant Professor
Agricultural Extension Service
University of Tennessee
P.O. Box 1071
Knoxville, TN 37901-1071

TEXAS
. . . . I.. . . . . . . . . I.. . . . . . . . . .

Mr. Charlie G. Coble
Professor
Texas A & M
Agricultural Engineering
Department
College Station, TX 77843

Mr. Edward Joseph Cosgrove
Area Director
U.S. Department of Labor - OSHA
1205 Texas Avenue, Suite 422
Lubbock, TX 79401

Mr. Rene Flares
FFA Safety Chairperson
8600 Alameda
El Paso, TX 79907

Mr. Max J. Howitt
Southwest Regional Production

Manager -
DeKalb Plant Genetics
3303 67th Street
Lubbock, TX 79413

Dr. David Lawver
Assistant Professor
Texas Tech
Mail Stop 2131
Lubbock, TX 79409-2131

Dr. Mary Nickolaus
Associate Director
University of Texas, School of Public
Health
P.O. Box 20186
Houston, TX T7225

Mr. Ronald Rinn
FFA Advisor
8600 Alameda
El Paso, TX 79907

Ms. E. Roberta Ryder
Executive Director
National Migrant Resource
Program, Inc.
2512 South, IH-35
Austin, TX 78704

Mr. Delmar E. Tally
Manager
Austin Chapter - AGC
P.O. Box 1508
Austin, TX 78767-l 508

Ms. Rebecca Trujillo
Migrant Farmworker Ministry
Diocese of Corous Christi Texas
P.O. Box 189

Skidmore, TX 78389

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ^..~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . r-l

UTAH

Dr. Jeff Lee
Associate Professor
University of Utah   l-l

RMEOEH, Building 512
Salt Lake City, UT 84112

VERMONT
._..........._._...._..,.......... . .

Mr. George L. Cook
University of
Vermont
Extension System
RRl,Box2280
Morrisville, VT 05861

VIRGINIA
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,

Mr. Robert Graham

Assistant Executive
Director
National Bocational Agriculture
Teacher's Association
P.O. Box 15440
Alexandria, VA 22309

Dr. Glen H. Hetzel
Agricultural Engineering Department
Virginia Tech
205 Seitz Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Mr. Wayne Sprick
Executive Director
National Young Farmer Educational
Association
5632 Mt. Vernon Memorial Highway
Alexandria, VA 22309

Mr. Chad Springer
FFA Safety Chairperson
Park View High School
Route 1, Box 118
South Hill, VA 23970

Mr. Ronnie Thomas
FFA Advisor
Park View High School
Route 1, Box 118
South Hill, VA 23970

Mr. Steve J. Thomson
Assistant Professor
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Seitz Hall, VPI and SU
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0303

Mr. Wei Zhao
Graduate Student
Virginia Tech
Seitz Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061

WASHINGTON
..-- _ ..-. ..-..".w . . . . . . . . . . . -."..-......

Mr. Richard L Barker
Program Coordinator
Eastern Washington Area Health
Education Center
601 West First Avenue
Spokane, WA 99204

Dr. Pamela D. Elkind
Professor of Sociology
Eastern Washington University
Patterson Hall, MS-38
Cheney, WA QQOO4-2415

Dr. Richard Fenske
Associate Professor
University of Washington
Department of Environmental Health
Seattle, WA 98195

Mr. Edward King
Washington State Dept. of Labor and
Industries
Division of Safety and Health
1716 South 16th Avenue
Yakima, WA 98902

Dr. Paul Monahan
Yakima Valley Farm Worker Clinic
MCN
Box 190
Toppenish, WA 98948

Mr. Dan Pearson
FFA Safety Chairperson
Elma High School
30 Elma Monte Road
Elma, WA 98541

Ms. Christie N. Renz
FFA Advisor
Elma High School
30 Elma Monte Road
Elma, WA 98541

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National Participants

Dr. Linda Rosenstock
Surveillance, Chemical Hazards
Universitv of Washinoton Occupational
MedicinsProgram -
ZA66, 325 9th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104

Ms. Rosemary Clanfrocco
Division of Safety Research
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, W 26505

Dr. Ali Manninen
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

Ms. Catherine L Connon
Occupational Health Nurse
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

Ms. Judith C. Mull
Medical Technologist
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

Mr. Joseph Costello
Statistician
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

Dr. Karl Musgrave
EIS Officer
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

Ms. Charlotte Dalton
Administrative Officer
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 28505

Mr. John R. Myers
Statistician
Division of Safety Research
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

Dr. Jeffrey S. Fedan           Dr. Stephen A. Olenchock
Research Pharmacologist         Assistant to the Director, DRDS
NIOSH, CDC               NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road         944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, W 26505          Morgantown, WV 26505

Dr. David L. Hard
Safety and Health Specialist
Division of Safety Research
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, W 26505

Ms. B. Teresa Palermo
Program Analyst
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 28505

Dr. William D. Jones
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, W 26505

Mr. Gregory J. Kullman
Industrial Hygienist
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Ftoad
Morgantown, W 26505

Dr. John E. Parker
Chief, Protective Technology Branch
Division of Safety Research
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

Dr. Daniel M. Lewis
Immunologist
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

Mr. Penn A Peters
Project Leader
U.S. Forest Service
180 Canfield Street, P.O. Box 4360
Morgantown, WV 26505

Mr. Michael D. Lyman
Nurse Epidemiologist
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

Dr. Edward L. Petsonk
Acting Section Chief
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

k-ral Prog.

Dr. Pervis C. Major
Director, Activity for Professic
and Facility Dev.
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

Dr. Paul Siegel
Research Chemist
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

Dr. W. Symons
Safety Specialist
Washington State
Agricultural Engineering Department
Pullman, WA 99163

WEST VIRGINIA
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I. . . . . . .

Ms. Rochelle Althouse
Statistician
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

Mr. Shib Bajapayee
Industrial Hygienist/Engineer
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

Ms. Kay Basile
Staff
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, W 26505

Dr. Thomas R. Bender
Director, Division of Safety Research
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

Ms. Toni A. Bledsoe
Medical Technologist
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

Dr. Robert Castellan
Chief, Epidemiological Investigations
Branch
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, W 26505

Dr. Vincent Castranova
Chief, Biochemistry and Pathology
Sections
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, W 26505

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Mr. Herman C. Sims
West Virainia Universitv
Institute ior Safety and Health Training
918 Chestnut Ridge Road, Suite 8
Morgantown, WV 26506

Dr. W. G. Sorenson
Research Mycologist
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

Mr. John T. Straface
Supply Management Cfficer
NIOSH. CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

Dr. Gregory R. Wagner
Director, Division of Respiratory Disease
Studies
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

Dr. Kenneth C. Weber
Branch Chief
NIOSH, CDC
944 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

WISCONSIN
. ..Y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . r4
Dr. Henry A. Anderson
Chief, Environmental and  U
Chronic Disease
Epidemiology
Wisconsin Department of Health and
Social Services
Wisconsin Divison of Health
Madison, WI 53701

Mr. Avanson
Route 6, Highway 14
Middleton, Wl 53562

Dr. Larry Chapman
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Agricultural Engineering Department
460 Henry Mali
Madison, WI 53704

Ms. Nancy E. Chudy
Epidemiologist
State of Wisconsin, Injury Prevention
Unit
1 West Wilson Street, P.O. Box 309
Madison, WI 53701-0309

Dr. Paul Gunderson
Agricultural Safety Specialist
National Farm Medicine Center
1000 North Oak Avenue
Marshfield, WI 54449-5790

Mr. Lawrence Hanrahan
Epidemiologist
Department of Health and Social
Services
WFCCP
Madison, WI 53701

Ms. Judith Huber
Registered Nurse
Marshfield Medical Research
1000 North Oak Avenue
Marshfield, Wl 54449

Mr. Larry Lang
Product Safety/Environmental
Coordinator
Genl Company
143 Water Street
West Bend, WI 53095

Ms. Karen lappe
Program Manager
National Farm Medicine Center
1000 North Oak Avenue
Marshfield, Wl 544495790

Ms. Barbara Lee
Assistant Director
National Farm Medicine Center
1000 North Oak Avenue
Marshfield, WI 54449-5790

Ms. Laura McKee
Publications Specialist
National Farm Medicine Center,
Marshfield Clinic
1000 North Oak Avenue
Marshfield, WI 54449

Ms. Sandra Muesegades
Public Health Nurse
1011 North 8th Street
Sheboygan, Wl 53081

Mr. David L. Nordstrom
Epidemiologist
National Farm Medicine Center
1000 North Oak Avenue
Marshfield, WI 54449

Dr. Douglas J. Reding
National Farm Medicine Center
1000 North Oak Avenue
Marshfield, WI 54449

Ms. Tammy Schaefer
Director, Resource Center for Farmers
with Disabilities
Easter Seal Society of Wisconsin
101 Nob Hill, Suite 301
Madison, WI 53704

Mr. Steve Schlecht
President
GEMPLER'S
P.O. Box 270
Mt. Horeb. Wl 53572

Dr. Ronald T. Schuler
University of Wrsconsin
Agricultural Engineering Department
460 Henry Mall
Madison, Wl 53706

Mr. William J. Sheeley
Farm Health and Safety
Council of Wisconsin
2463 North 85th Street
Wauwatosa, WI 53226

Ms. Cheryl Skjolaas
Specialist
University of Wisconsin - Madison
460 Henry Mall
Madison, WI 53706

Ms. Stefani Sogard
Communtity Health Educator
LaCrosse County Health Department
300 North 4th
Lacrosse, WI 54601

Dr. Dean Stueland
Medical Director
National Farm Medicine Center
1000 North Oak Avenue
Marshfield, Wl 54449-5790

WYOMING
.-LLYI...II.Y-U..--.A... . . . -.

Ms. Judith E. Wormal
Safety Specialist
Cooperative Extension Service
Box 3354
Larami, WY 82071

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Surgeon General's Cmkmnce on Agricultural Safkty and Heatth
FARM&E 2000 o A National Coalition for Local Action
Convened by the National institute for Occupational Safety and Health
April 30 - May 3, 1991, Des Moines, Iowa

INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS

CANADA                SWEDEN
..,.......... e ..I........ ...""......."..l- ..,. *....v ..,..,.............   . . . . . V..". . . . . l.._.,r.mm-.~~."_..~~-.-~..~.-.... . . . . . . . . -,

Dr. James A. Dosman
Director, Center for Agricultural
Medicine
University of Saskatchewan
Royal University Hospital
Saskatoon, Canada S7N OX0

Dr. Chen Zhou

University of Saskatchewan
Centre for Agricultural Medicine
Royal University Hospital
Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N OX0

Dr. Sverker Hogliind
Director
Swedish Farmers Safety and Prevention
Health Association
S-105 33
Stockholm, Swedan

Mr. Bjarne Lembke
Doctor
Swedish Farmer's Safety and Preventive
Health Assoc.
Lantbrukshalsan, PL 326 26700
Bjuv, Swedan

SWITZERLAND
-"-.-e,-ww .*~--lml-"l*- . . . . . . . ..-_1

Dr. Thomas Ng
Medical Officer
World Health Organization
20 Appia Avenue
Geneva, Switzerland

TAIWAN

Dr. Guang-Yang Yang
Veterans General Hospital
Division of Clinical Toxicology, Dept of
Medicine

201 Sec. 2, Shih-Pai Road
Taipei, Taiwan 11217

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Append&

Surgeon General's Conference on Agricultural Safety and Health
FAR&AFE 2000 o A National Coalition for Local Action
Convened bv the National Institute for Occuoatlonal Safetv and Health
April 30 - h&y 3, 1991, Des Moines, Iowa   '

ACRONYMS

2,4-D
4-H

ABC
AC
ACTION

AFC
AFT
AG-LINK
AGI
AHPS

AIDS

ALAI

ALIVE

AM
ANSI

ARHES

ASAE

ASCS

ATSDR

ATV
AU
K
B:S:N.
EL
BALF
BLS
BRFSS

2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid
A program of informal education
for youth
Always Be Careful
Amanda-Clearcreek
Domestic Volunteer Service
Agency
antibody-forming cells
antibody-forming cells
a crisis hotline
Ace Glass Impinger
Agricultural Health Promotion
Systems
Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome
American Lung Association of
Iowa
Aware Leaders Instilling Vital
Education
alveolar macrophage
American National Standards
Institute
Agricultural Respiratory Hazards
Education Series
American Society of Agricultural
Engineers
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service
Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry
all terrain vehicle
Aspergillus umbrosus
Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Science
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
a carcinogenic level
bronchoalveolar lavage
bronchoalveolar lavage fluids
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System

EAHSPS

CAST

CATI

CDC
CDFA

::HIC

CES
CFM
CFR
CFU
CIEP
:!I.H.
&
co
:%
CPSC

CSP
CTL
DARE
dB(A)
DBBS

DBCP
DCC
DDT
DFR
DHHS

DLCO

Celsius
California Agricultural Health and
Safety Promotion System
Council on Agricultural Science
Technology
computer-assisted telephone
interview
Centers for Disease Control
California Department of Food
and Agriculture
California encephalitis
Center for Environmental Health
and Injury Control
Cooperative Extension Service
cubic feet per minute
Code of Federal Regulations
colony forming units
counterimmuno-electrophoresis
cellular infiltrate
Certified Industrial Hygienist
centimeter(s)
central nervous system
carbon monoxide
carbon dioxide
cardio-pulmonary resuscitation
Consumer Products Safety
Commission
Certified Safety Professional
cytotoxic T lymphocyte
Drugs and Resistance Education
decibels (A-weighted scale)
Division of Biomedical and
Behavioral Science
dibromochloropropane
day care center
dichlordiphenyltrichloroethane
dislodgeable foliar residue
Department of Health and
Human Services
low diffusing capacity for carbon
monoxide

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Acronyms

DNA
DOL
DOT
DPS
DPSE

DRDS

DSDTT

DSHEFS

DSR
DTH
DTMD

D.V.M.
EACH

E-Codes

EC
EDB
EEE

EEG
ELISA

EM
EM
EMI

EMS
EMT
EPA

ESA

ETC
EU
EVA
FACE

FaRM

FARS
FAX
FBLA

622

deoxyribonucleic acid
Department of Labor
Department of Transportation

Division of Physical Sciences and
Engineering
Division of Respiratory Disease
Studies
Division of Standards
Development, and Technology
Transfer
Division of Surveillance, Hazard
Evaluations, and Field Studies
Division of Safety Research
delayed-type hypersensitivity
Division of Training and
Manpower Development
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Essential Access to Community
Hospitals
injury and poisoning codes,
external cause
electron capture
ethylene dibromide
Eastern equine
encephalomyelitis
electroencephalogram
enzyme-linked immunosorbent
assay
electron microscopy
equipment maintenance
Equipment Manufacturers
Institute
emergency medical services
emergency medical technician
Envirommental Protection
Agency
Employment Standards
Administration
emergency transmatic cars
endotoxin units
extravehicular activity
Fatal Accident Circumstances
and Epidemiology
Farm Family Rehabilitation
Management
Fatal Accident Reporting System
faximile
Future Business Leaders of
America

FDA
FEV
FEVl

FEW FVC

FFA

FFHHS

FHA
FHA
FIFRA

FLD
FTA
FVC
FY
:ATT

:%I
GLC
GSDE
W
HAZMAT
HAZOP
HERO

HFS
HHS
HIV
HP
I-CASH

Food and Drug Administration
forced expiratory volume
forced expiratory volume in one
second
forced expiratory volume in one
second, forced vital capacity
formally, Future Farmers of
America
Farm Family Health and Hazard
Survey
Federal Housing Administration
Future Homemakers of America
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,
and Rodenticide Act
farmers lung disease
Free Trade Agreement
forced vital capacity
fiscal year
gram(s)
General Agreement on Trade and
Tariffs
gas chromatography
ground-fault circuit interrupter
gas-liquid chromatography
grain sorghum dust extract
hydrogen sulfide
hazardous materials
hazard and operability
home economics related
organization
Human Factors Society
Health and Human Services
human immunodeficiency virus
hypersensitivity pneumonitis
Iowa Center for Agricultural
Safety and Health

IA-HASSP Iowa Agricultural Health and
     Safety Services Project
I ARC   International Agency for
       Research on Cancer
ICD     International Classification of
       Diseases
ICD-9    International Classification of
       Disease - 9th Revision
IDPH   Iowa Department of Public
       Health
IEA    International Ergonomics
       Association
IgE    reaginic antibodies
W    precipitating antibodies

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IL
IL-1 B
IOM
IPM
IRCA

IS0

ISU
I
LEIA

LPHS
LRT
m
KfDD
M*A*S*H
M.B.A.

MFW
mg
ml
MLC
MMFR

M.P.A.
M.P.H.
M.S.
M.S.F.
MSHA

n
NACHO

NAFTA

NBC

NCASH

NCHS

NCI
NCSU
NEANES

NEC

International Harvester
Indian Health Service
interleukin 1 B
Institute of Medicine
integrated pest management
Immigration Reform and Control
Act
International Standards
Organization
International Standards Units
liter(s)
organization of the machine
manufacturers in Sweden
Lake Placid High School
lower respiratory tract
meter(s)
Master of Arts
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
mobile army surgical hospital
Master of Business
Administration
migrant farm worker
milligram(s)
milliliter(s)
mixed lymphocyte culture
maximum mid-expiratory flow
rate
Master of Public Administration
Master of Public Health
Master of Science
Master of Science in Forestry
Mine Safety and Health
Administration
number
National Association of County
Health Officials
North American Free Trade
Agreement
National Broadcasting
Corporation
National Coalition for Agricultural
Safety and Health
National Center for Health
Statistics
National Cancer Institute
North Carolina State University
National Health and Nutrition
Examination Survey
National Electric Code

NEISS

w
Fi
NHTSA

NIEHS

NIFS
NIH
NIOSH

NIPCC

NITS

NL
NOES

NOHS

NRHA

NSC
NTOF

NTP
OATS

OBGYN
OD
ODTS
OMB

OR
ORD
ORHP
OSG
OSHA

osu
PAS

PAT
pCi
PDR
PEACH

PEL

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National Electronic Injury
Surveillance System
nanogram(s)
ammonia
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
National Institute of
Environmental Health Science
National Institute for Farm Safety
National Institutes of Health
National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
National Injury Prevention and
Control Committee
National Institute for Technology
and Standards
nasal lavage
National Occupational Exposure
Survey
National Occupational Hazards
Survey
National Rural Health
Association
National Safety Council
National Traumatic Occupational
Fatalities
National Toxicology Program
Olmsted Agricultural Trauma
Study
obstetrician gynecologist
over dose
organic dust toxic syndrome
Office of Management and
Budget
operating room
occupational respiratory diseases
Office of Rural Health Policy
Office of the Surgeon General
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
Oklahoma State University
Post-secondary Agricultural
Student Organization
pesticide applicator training
picocurrier(s)
Physician's Desk Reference
Primary Care Hospitals Essential
Access to Community Hospitals
permissible exposure limit


Acronyms

Ph.D.
PHA
PHA
PHD
PHS
PMN
PMR
PPE
PRIST
PSA
PTO
PTS
PUD
PV
RAST
RD
FE
REL
RFP
R.N.
ROPS
RRIS
SADD
SAE
SAW

Sc.D.
SDS
SEM
SLCA
SLE
SMR
SMV

Doctor of Philosophy
phytohemagglutinin
process hazard analysis
Panhandle Health District
Public Health Service
polymorphoc neutrophils
proportionate mortality ratio
personal protective equipment
paper radio immunosorbent test
Public Service Announcement
power take-off
Permanent threshold shift
Public Utilities Department
Park View
radioallergosorbent test
respiratory disease
Registered Dietitian
Rural Electric Cooperative
recommended exposure limit
request for proposal
Registered Nurse
roll-over protective structure
Regional Rural Injury Study
Student Athletes Detest Drugs
Society of Automotive Engineers
Special Agricultural Worker
Program
Doctor of Science
Supplementary Data System
scanning electron microscopy
static lateral critical angle
St. Louis encephalitis
standardized mortality ratio
slow-moving-vehicle

SPRAINS

STD
STEL
Syn.
TB
TCE
TLC
TLV
TSCA
-ITS
z
KDP

URT
U.S.
USDA

USEPA

UTI
;:F
Vo-Ag
WC
WEE
WHO
WIG

YISD

Sentinel Project Researching
Agricultural Injury Notification
Systems
sexually-transmitted disease
short-term exposure limit
synonym
tuberculosis
trichloroethylene
total lung capacity
threshold limit value
Toxic Substances Control Act
temporary threshold shift
fhefmoacthomyces vulgaris
television
University of California
United Nations Development
Program
upper respiratory tract
United States
United States Department of
Agriculture
United States Environmental
Protection Agency
urinary tract infections
Veteran's Administration
virus, antigen free
vocational agriculture
workers' compensation
western equine encephalitis
World Health Organization
Women's, Infant's, and
Children's
Ysleta Incorporated School
District
micrometer(s)

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Surgeon General's Conference on Agricultural Safety and Health
FARMSAFE 2000 o A National Coalition for Local Action
Convened by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
April 30 - May 3, 1991, Des Moines, Iowa

METRIC SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES '

INTRODUCTION

Use of metric measurement standards in the United States have been authorized by law
since 1866. In 1988, the Congress enacted legislation (Public Law 100-418) to establish
the metric system as the preferred system of weights and measures for all domestic trade
and commerce. This legislation also required the use of
metric measurement standards in all Federal activities.   Table I. Prefixes and Symbols
Recently, the President issued Executive Order 12770 on  for Decimal Multiples and
July 25, 1991 reiterated the order to implement the    Submultiples of Units.

metric system "as the preferred system of weights and
measures for United States trade and commerce." This
executive order directs all Federal agencies to
implement "metrification," to the extent economically
feasible, by September 30, 1992.

THE METRIC SYSTEM

Originally, there were only two basic reference points,
the meter and the gram. The list of reference points
has been expanded or changed to include the kilogram
(instead of the gram) for mass, the second for time, the
ampere for electric current, the degree Kelvin for
temperature, and the candela for light intensity.

The reference objects for these International Standards
Units are maintained for comparisons and checked
periodically against other international references by the
National Institute for Technology and Standards (NITS).

The mettic system entails the use of multiples or power
of ten to describe magnitudes greater or lesser than the
basic units of meter, gram, ampere, and so forth. For
example, the kilogram is 1,000 grams and the miZZigram
is l/l,OOOth of a gram. There are 100 centimeters (0.39
inches) to one meter (1.09 yards) and 1,000 meters to

Power Prefix  Symbol
of Ten
lo=    tera     T
log   gig a     G
lo*    mega     M
lo3    kilo     k
102    hecto     h
10'   deca* da

10-l    deci     d
1O-2    centi      C
lo9    milli       m
1oa    micro     I-I
10"    nano       n
lo-l2   pica
10-15   femto  `1
1 o-l8    atto       a
          *Also "deka."
Source: ConfOrence g&r&ale des
Poids et Mesures, Comtes rendus
des dances de la 1 la Conference
g&n&ale des Poids et Mesures,
Paris 1960, Gauthier-Wars, Paris,
1961, page 87; Conference
g&n&ale des Poids et Mesures,
Comtes rendus des seances de la
12e Conference g&n&ale des
Poids et Mesures, Paris 1964,
Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1964, page
94.

`Adapted from OSHA Instruction CPL 2-2.20B CH-1, pp. 23-1 to 4.

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one kilometer (0.62 miles). The prefixes for the multiples and submultiples applied as
multiples (power) of ten is presented in Table I.

CONVERSION EQUIVALENTS

The document to be used as a primary reference for inch-pound to metric conversions is
Pederal Standard 376A, Preferred Metric Unites for General Use by the Federal
Government, May 5, 1983. A selected number of conversion factors are presented in
Table II as examples.0

Table Ii. Prefixes and Symbols for Decimal h
Length

2.54 centimeters (cm)      =

1 inch (in)

25.4 millimeters (mm)

0.3048 meters (m)

=

=

   1 in

1 foot (ft)

1.609344 kilometers (km) =
Area

6.4516 cm*          =

645.16 mm2         =

0.0929034 m2 =

4046.873 m2         =

2.589998 km2        =

1 mile (mi)

1 in2

1 in2

lff

1 acre

1 mi2

Velocity

0.3048 meters/second (m/s) =   1 foot/
              second (ft/s)

1.6093478 km/hour (km/h) =  1 mile/
               hour (mi/h)

rltiples and Submultiples of Units.

Pressure

3.38638 kilopascals (kPa) =    1 inch of
             mercury (in Hg)

2.98898 kPa

=    1 foot of
water (ft H,O)

0.1 kPa

=    1 millibar

Volume

0.02831685 m3 =          1 ft3

28.31685 liter (I)

=

1 ft3

3.785412 I

=

1 gallon (gal)

0.1589873 m3 =

  1 barrel
(42 gal) (bbl)

1233.489 m3 =

1 acre-foot

0.002359737 m3

=  1 board foot (bd ft)

Weight (Mass)

0.45359237 kilogram (kg) =  1 pound (lb)

28.34952 grams (g)       =  1 ounce (oz)

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Surgeon General's Conference on Agricultural Safety and Health
FARMSAFE 2000 . A National Coalition for Local Action
Convened by the National Institute for occupational safety and Health
April 30 - May 3, 1991, Des Moines, Iowa

THE SURGEON GENERAL'S CONFERENCES
   ON OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH '
         By Anne Mather

The recognition that work can cause disease and disability may be as old as mankind.
But the belief that government should try to prevent occupational affliction is not. The
Public Health Service (PHS) played an integral part in this shift in perception.

The year was 1925. For the past two years, newspapers, particularly The New York
World, had been carrying stories about cases of severe poisoning among chemists and
other workers.

The source of the poisoning was tetraethyl lead, a new compound used in gasoline as
an anti-knock agent. Within 17 months of its first manufacture in the United States, 139
cases of poisoning occurred; 13 people were dead.

In her autobiography, Dr. Alice Hamilton, a pioneer in industrial toxicology (she was
the first U.S. physician to devote her career to occupational safety and health), describes
the effects of this poison on the body: it is more quickZy absorbed than any of those
ordinatily used in the central nervow system, causing insomnia, excitement, twitching
muscles, hallucinations like those of delirium tremens, even maniacal attacks and
convukiions, and death.

It was a true emergency, one met by then-Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming. On
May 5, 1925, he requested the industry to discontinue temporarily the manufacture and
distribution of tetraethyl lead. Industry complied. On May 20, Gumming called a
conference to discuss the problem. Attending were industrialists, chemists,
representatives of labor and physicians. They names an expert committee to recommend
ways to prevent poisoning from tetraethyl lead.

A case-control study of 252 persons led to a conclusion that the hazards of this form of
lead could be prevented by mechanical devices. When Surgeon General Gumming held
another conference in 1926, the first cooperative agreement on toxic substances was
reached.

The agreement included restrictions on the use and handling of tetraethyl lead. These
regulations were subsequently administered by the Office of Industrial Hygiene and
Sanitation, the predecessor of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

  `Adapted from Dateline: CDC article, Vol. 22, No. 9, October 1989, p. 12, written by Anne Mather
and edited by Mary Guinan, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Director for Science.

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As a result, several states made lead poisoning a reportable disease. Reporting
continued until World War II.

These conferences were so successful that they became the model for another one, in
1928, on the health hazards of radium dial painting. Radium was also a new poison. It
was used to make the luminous dials on watches and clocks. The habit workers had of
pointing the tips of the brushes with their lips led to numerous fatalities.

So successful were these early conferences that a total of 9 were ultimately held-the
last in 1941 under Surgeon General Thomas Parran. They concerned methanol, carbon
tetrachloride and similar volatile chlorinated liquid hydrocarbons, carbon tetrachloride
fire extinguisher, aniline oil, carbon disulfide, benzol, and chronic mercurial poisoning in
the hatting industry, They resulted in agreements between industry including labor,
where appropriate, and PHS.

Wrote Hamilton,

It was to me both surptiing and heartening to see men of such widely separated
backgrounds and interests-manufacturers and their chemists and research workers on one
side, trade-union oficiaals, independent physicians, and toxicologists on the other--meet in
a spirit of reasonableness and a genuine desire to get at the real facts and deal practically
with the problem.1

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Surgeon General's Conference on pqrioulturai Sefety and Health
FARMSAFE 2000 o A National Coalition for Local Action
Convened by the National Inrrtituto for Oooupetionel Safety end Heeith
April 30 - May 3, 1991, Des Moines, Iowa

EXCERPTS FROM DISEASES OF WORKERS '
      & Bernardino Ramazzini

DISEASES OF FARMERS

0 FARMERS', too blest by Fortune, did they but know their bliss!" This cried  the
prince of poets of old. And perhaps we may say as much of that pristine race of mortals
that used to till their ancestral acres with their own oxen, but not nowadays of our
farmers, for they have to wrestle with unending toil and the direst poverty on another
man's estate. The diseases that commonly attack the peasantry, in Italy at least, and
above all in the country on both sides of the PO, are: Pleurisy, pneumonia, asthma, colic,
erysipelas, ophthalmia, quinsy, toothache, and decay of the teeth. The exciting causes of
these maladies are in the main two, the weather and unwholesome food. While they
work in the fields they are exposed to the inclemency of the weather; they are buffeted
now by the south wind now by the north, soaked with rain and night dews, scorched by
the summer sun; however robust they may be, of however hardy a stock, they cannot
support such violent changes; now they are in a bath of sweat, now chilled through, and
besides they live on such unwholesome food that they accumulate a stock of thick
glutinous humors which bring in their train a host of troubles. For the whole mass of
humors is excited to a febrile effervescence, and thus in the vessels of the lungs into
which flows all the venous blood, thick and viscid humors readily stagnate. This is why,
as I have often noticed, whenever an epidemical constitution of lung diseases begins to
assault us, it gives the signal to attack first the country-people and completely dominated
them. Also from the same causes they very often suffer from the pains of colic and from
hypochondriasis; the latter they call `the master's disease', because this sort of affection
seems to savor somewhat of hysterical trouble; their coarse and sticky food produces in
the stomach and intestines a serious accumulation of pituitous and acid juice; hence
ensue griping pains and distension of the intestines. Their agricultural work, since it is
determined by differences of localities and the variations of the seasons, is various and of
many kinds; thus in winter and early spring they suffer from diseases of the chest, fluxes
to the eyes, and quinsy. These ailments are caused, as I have said, by their viscid and
thick blood which makes the circulation sluggish so that the blood stagnates easily and in
various parts excites inflammations; in fact, when blood is drawn from them by
venesection at this season, it is so thick that both in density and color it resembles
beeswax.

In my opinion there is no class of men whose blood undergoes such a great change and
in SO short a time as happens with these country-people; if you draw blood from them in

  `Courtesy of the New York Academy of Medicine Library. Translated from the Latin text De
Morbis Articicum of 1713 by Wilmer Cave Wright. Published under the auspices of the Library of The New
York Academy of Medicine, Hafner Publishing Company, New York, London, 1964, Chapter XXX% pp.
337-351, Chapter XL, pp. 353-357, and Chapter VI, pp. 44143.

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spring it may be thick and glutinous, but if in early summer some disease gives occasion
for venesection of those same persons, the blood looks lively and bright red. Exercise
and hard work have so powerful an effect that in so short a time the mass of humors in
transformed to a quite opposite crasis; but in the case of townspeople this is not
observed.

I have often noticed a curious thing that happens to our peasantry, especially to the
children. In March, about the equinox, children under the age of ten or thereabouts are
affected with remarkable dimness of vision; in the daytime they can see but little or
almost nothing, and as they run about the fields they wander and lose their way just like
blind people; but when night comes they can see fairly well. The affection passes off of
itself without any remedy, and about the middle of April their former keenness of vision
is entirely restored. I have often examined the eyes of these children when I had a
chance and noted that the pupil was excessively dilated. This affection is called by
doctors `mydriasis', but in discussing its cause writers are by no means in agreement, as
you may see by consulting Sennert, Riviere, and Platter. De Gorris states that this
disorder is not unlike paralysis of the pupil; and my own view is that the sun's rays in
March may cause some liquefaction in the brain and visual nerves; this so weakens the
tonus of the uvea, the tunic of the eye, that it collapses. These children spend the whole
winter in extremely warm damp stables, and when the winter breaks up, which happens
about the equinox, they sally forth from these dens and expose their bare heads to the
sun's rays; this is very liable to cause a diffusion of the humors followed by dilation of
the pupil and a consequent weakness of vision due to the admission of such intense light.
Towards the end of April, the influx of humors has been effectually dispersed by the
sun's rays, the pupil contracts and is restored to its natural tension, and so without any
remedy the eyesight is completely restored.

0 Furthermore, in summer farmers are very often attacked by acute and ardent fevers,
especially when the wrath of `raging Leo' begins to scorch them. In autumn they are
subject to dysentery, and this we may ascribe to their eating the fruits of the season and
to other errors of diet. Autumn is the regular time for them to steep hemp and flax in
the pools of the marshes. This task is generally assigned to women, who, in order to
drag out the bundles of hemp and clean them, wade up to the waist in lakes and pools;
as a result of this filthy task many of them are attacked by acute fever, which is very
quickly fatal; we may suppose that this is caused not only by constriction of the pores of
the skin and checked transpiration but also by the fact that the animal spirits are utterly
destroyed by that terrible pestilential stench which pollutes the whole neighborhood.
This above all others is the season when city folk are cautious and with good reason
about paying country visits; for then from every farm there comes a disgusting odor.
Father Kircher considers that this odor alone is the cause of the highly malignant plague
that certain cities have experienced from time to time. Schenck in his Observations,
Pedro `a Castro, Simon Paulli, and others fully demonstrate the virulent quality of the
vapors that rise from the water in which hemp has been steeped. As for the influence of
smells, whatever it may be, women who are subject to fits of hysterics know well how
powerful it is. Another thing that seriously injures the health of farmers is their careless
habit of piling dung for manuring the fields; they place these heaps in from on the

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cowhouses and pigsties and even their own houses, which may truly be called Augean
stables, and keep them there all through the summer, for a nosegay, and inevitably the
air is polluted by the foul effluvia that incessantly rise from them. For this reason
Hesiod disapproved of manuring the fields and desired that farmers should consider their
own health rather than the fertility of the soil.

Paolo Zacchias remarks that gardeners very often suffer from cachexy and dropsy; this
is because they have to keep watering the gardens and are obliged to spend their time on
ground so damp that their bodies cannot fail to absorb a great deal of moisture. I
remember the case of a patient of mine, a kitchen-gardener, who had become partly
paralysed; he had entirely lost the use on one of his legs, through its sensibility was not
impaired; in the other leg there was no sensation but its motility was not affected; by
taking a decoction of guaiacum and many other remedies, for several years, he finally
recovered. Hippocrates records a case which I will quote: "A man who lay ill in the
garden of Dealcis had heaviness in the head and pain in the right temple for a long time.
He caught fever from some exciting cause, and took to his bed." In his comment on this
case history, Galen flares up against Sabinus who held that the word `garden' had been
interpolated in the text of Hippocrates; as though in Galen's view this indicated the real
occasion of the disease; certainly Galen seems to have condemned the air of gardens on
account of the manure and the pernicious exhalations form trees, e.g. box, and from
similar plants. Those who live near meadows are also subject to the aforesaid diseases,
for meadows nearly always make the air unhealthy for the same reasons. Hence we find
in Zacchias under Furiscon.~Zts: Meadow and what the word sign@e,~, that an action may
lie against a neighbor who intends to convert arable land into pasture. It follows that
those who work in meadows, for instance mowing hay, suffer from serious disorders.

Now what can the medical profession do to protect these tillers of the soil whom we
need so much? To suggest to our farmers in Italy any precautions of a medical sort that
might safeguard them seems little short of absurd since they seldom or never consult
doctors about this and when one does make some suggestion they pay no attention. All
that I can do is to offer certain warnings as to their treatment that it would be well to
heed whenever they are brought to the city and are laid up in a hospital with any of the
maladies I have mentioned, or when they do call in a doctor, as happens now and again
when they can well afford it. My first warning, then, is that in cases of pleurisy or other
diseases of the chest you must not draw blood as freely as you would from townspeople;
for their bodies are worn out by unremitting toil, and it takes very little to bring on
collapse; moreover, their blood is almost wholly of a gelatinous consistency, and its
volatile elements have been used up; hence if an excessive amount of blood is drawn
from them their strength collapses, and they are unable to wash out the disease by
expectoration or vomiting. I am well aware that there are some who think that we ought
to resort to more drastic venesection when the blood is seen to be so thick, for this, they
say, would stimulate the circulation; but this is easily said. They should consult the
learned Bellini and see with what caution one must proceed when one tries by
venesection to remove blood from some part to which there has been an excessive flow.
This at least is certain, that the blood does not flow through its channels of its own
accord and by the force of its own gravity; it is the spirits that supply the driving force,

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aided by the action of the heart; so that if the spirits are enfeebled, instead of
stimulating the circulation of the blood you make it slow down still more.

Baillou raises this question: The bodies of servants, men and women alike, are in
other respects hard, compact, and soiled and their health is not so easily upset as that of
the gentry; why then when they are ill are they more easily upset as that of the gentry;
why then when they are ill are they more easily prostrated by purging and venesection
then are persons whose bodies are less compact and more delicate? Of the various
reasons that he offers for this, the most important is. that their bodies are so thick and
distended by hardened viscera that they do not easily yield to purgatives, nor do they
derive much benefit from phlebotomy; we may say the same of country-people.
Hippocrates too describes a certain constitution in which all the female slaves who were
attacked by quinsy died of it, whereas it was not fatal to free-born maidens. It follows
that in diagnosing diseases and applying treatment you should take into account not only
the bodily habit of the patients but also their mode of life and occupations.

Many indeed are the mistakes that to my knowledge are made in treating these
country-people, simply because on account of their robustness they are supposed to be
able to stand stronger remedies than the townsfolk. Often enough, and always with
compassion, I see poor peasants brought in to the public hospitals and handed over to
young doctors just out of the medical school; I see their strength utterly exhausted by
powerful cathartics and repeated phlebotomy, with no attention paid to the fact that they
are unaccustomed to strong remedies or that their strength is enfeebled by the fatigues
they have undergone. This is why so many of them prefer to face death in their huts
rather than take leave of this life in a hospital after their veins have been drained of
blood and their bellies emptied and exhausted by drugs. Every year when the harvest is
over in the Roman Campagna, the hospitals of Rome fill up with reapers who have
fallen sick; and it is a question which cuts off more reapers, the scythe of Death or the
surgeon's lancet.

I must say that I have often had cause to wonder how so many of these people when
attacked by acute diseases managed to recover, I do not say without the aid of any
remedy, for that would not surprise me, but on a rich and even sumptuous diet; for
however poor these farmers may be, when one of them falls sick the neighbors hasten to
bring them eggs and chickens with which they make dainty dishes, and in this way they
either manage to defy the virulence of the disease or to hasten their release from the life
of toil and trouble that they lead; so that with us it has come to be a common saying that
the peasant class when death takes them to himself pass over well nourished and with
full bellies; but the city folk perish miserable of hunger and starvation while the doctors
torture them,

But when the former begin to recover, they go back to their regular diet of garlic and
onions and devour them greedily as one would sweetmeats, and moreover they consider
them a strengthening food. I can well believe that that acrid sort of aliment may answer
the purpose of a medicament, for their stomachs and the whole blood mass tend to
sourness, especially in the autumn after the summer's work is finished, and so onions and

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garlic, like other anti-scorbutic remedies, will serve to dissolve that viscid substance and
to correct acidity. I know many of them who have driven off quartan fevers by a diet of
garlic and onions with strong wine in mid-winter.

Galen records the case of a rustic who was seized the colic pains and cured himself in
the following way: He tightened his belt, then devoured garlic and bread and exercised
himself by keeping at his usual work all day; by these means be got rid of the pain of
colic. "I should therefore", says Galen, "call garlic the peasant's theriac, and anyone who
forbids Thracians or Gauls, in short those who live in cold countries, to eat garlic will be
giving them harmful advice." Another remedy that our farmers use to cure colic is this;
they take the leaves of ground-pine, pound them, and with yolks of eggs make a poultice
and apply it to the abdomen.

In Hippocrates is a curious case history form which I quote: "There are certain
postures that give relief, e.g. the man whose work was plaiting and twisting twigs with his
hand; the pain was such that he took to his bed; but he seized the top of a pole that was
fixed above this head, gripped it firmly and the pain was relieved." Hippocrates does not
say in what part the pain was, and Galen in his note on the passage thinks it was in the
hand; but Valles decides that the pain was most violent and was piercing him as if with
something pointed, he placed the end of a wooden pole and pressed hard on it; for pains
of this sort are, he says, much relieved, `by strong pressure, by tossing the body about
and changing one's posture." This is just what nature teaches us when we have a
stomach-ache, namely, that we should press hard with the hand or fist on the painful
part; this prevents it from becoming distended and swelling up. That is why Hippocrates
recommended pressure with the hand when women have fits of hysterics, so that the
womb might be kept in its proper place, and I have often found this sort of remedy very
effectual, in fact much more that the whole outfit of remedies for hysterics.

I could write at much greater length on the proper treatment of these farmers, but let
me sum up: As far as we may gather from actual experience and from sound reasoning,
since they are enfeebled by constant toil and ill-nourished from an unwholesome diet, we
must not exhaust their bodies by copious and repeated blood-letting and purging; emetics
they can stand more easily, cupping with scarification in continuous fevers very often
gives wonderfully good results, whether because they have great confidence in this
remedy or perhaps because of some other factor of which we know nothing. When it is
necessary to administer some sort of antidote, let it be chosen from the class that are
volatile; this will be in conformity with nature, for they are accustomed to sweating not
only in summer but in winter too; for men who exercise constantly always sweat easily.
When they no longer have to battle with disease and are beginning to convalesce, they
should be allowed to return to their poor homes and to resume the diet to which they
are accustomed. Plato was quite right in ridiculing they physician Herodicus for wanting
to prescribe rules of diet for artisans.

It follows that in my opinion men of this class should be treated by the direct and
summary method; any other that is roundabout and calls for an outfit of various sorts

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gradually consumes the strength of these peasant folk: "Who seeks to cure, but makes it
worse."

DISEASES OF FISHERMEN

0 FmERS plough the earth and sow and thus by plenteous crops supply food to
the population, so fishermen plough the seas and rivers and by catching fish greatly
contribute to the food supply and furnish dainties for the table. For the mainland would
not suffice to feed such vast multitudes if the seas did not reinforce it with a supply of
fish. Thus when the price of grain is high, coastal cities and seaports suffer less than
inland towns and districts. We know that there are certain peoples called Ichthyophagi,
because their only food is fish, e.g. those who live near the Red Sea, who broil fish on
stones made red-hot by the sun and thus they make bread. Medicine therefore, which as
Hippocrates says comes to the aid of all men, ought to take as much care of fishermen
as of farmers whenever, as very often happens, they fall ill. Now when a doctor happens
to have some fisherman entrusted to his care, let him carefully consider that theirs is a
very toilsome and exacting calling; that the man has to endure the cruel buffets of the
winds, freezing cold in winter, and in summer scorching heat; he should consider what
kind of food he eats and how irregular is the sort of life he leads, so that, while other
workers when wearied by the day's toil go to their homes and spend the night in
comfort in their beds, restoring their strength by sleep, for fishermen the night is usually
spent in toil and sleepless. Thus the Apostles complained to our Saviour that they had
toiled the whole night and taken nothing. Pitiable therefore is the lot of these workers,
for since they very often have no other home than a small boat, when they fall ill they
are obliged to go into a hospital, where it is impossible to enter on the precise and
proper treatment for them unless the doctor knows clearly in what sort of occupation the
patient is engaged.

The clothes of fishermen are always wet through, hence they are exposed to diseases
that arise from obstruction of transpiration; such are acute fevers, chest troubles,
pleurisy, pneumonia, coughs, dyspnoea, and similar diseases. They live mainly on fish,
and of the inferior sort, since the better kinds are reserved for the tables of men or rank,
as in the story of that huge turbot about which Juvenal wrote his Fourth Satire; this diet
produces in them a cachectic habit, which ends in dropsy. There is a saying of
Hippocrates: "Food too weak to nourish has a brief life"; that means, according to the
admirable note of Valles, that if you want to prolong your life such food will not help
much. Hence Lievin Lemmens was right in saying that if you eat fish you need to eat
more bread because fish very quickly putrefies, These men spend all their time in places
that are very damp, and they are therefore subject to leg-ulcers that are difficult to cure.
However, it is well to know that the ulcers of men engaged in fishing in rivers and
marshes are very different from those that afflict sea-fishers; for fresh-water fishermen
have foul ulcers that readily degenerate into gangrene, but sea-fishers have dry rough
ulcers, as is remarked by Hippocrates, On the uTe of liquids, 7; and he prescribes
fomentation with sea-water as the treatment for this kind of ulcer. Marziano has an
excellent note on the passage. Though it would seem to the highly irrational to foment
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increases any discharge, he says that Hippocrates was right to prescribe it, for the
fol!owing reasons: The ulcers of sea-fishers are very hard and dry, and by inducing
nntatron you can provoke suppuration; now unless ulcers suppurate you cannot heal
then, a fact which Galen also notes. But you must treat differently the ulcers of those
who carry on their fishing in rivers and marshy places; for foul ulcers of this sort
applications that are drying but not irritating will be best. As Hippocrates says: "A dry
ulcer is nearly well, but a wet ulcer is far from well." Sea-fishers suffer very much from
constriction of the bowels, in spite of the fact that they eat much more that those who
live ashore. Helmont remarks on this and says it is because the air they breathe is
saturated with saline vapors; this whets the appetite and at the same time makes the
bowels hard; also they eat more on account of the movement of the waves which
constantly renews the air; this gives a stimulus to the fermentation of the blood. Now
clusters of sea-water, though they are very effective for moving the bowels, actually
induce dryness later. There is a noteworthy passage in Hippocrates. "People are
mistaken about saline waters, from lack of experience, in that they think they relax the
bowels and promote stools, whereas they in fact seriously hinder evacuation of the
bowels and stools." Then let those who prescribe for constriction of the bowels sharp
clusters with a great deal of salt learn from this how far they are astray from the path
trodden by our inspired teacher. Therefore, for constriction of the bowels in fishermen it
is more suitable to give softening and oily clusters; they should swallow mild lenitives
and cathartics.

It is a known fact that fishermen are sometimes attacked with torpor and numbness of
the arms and feet when, among the fish in the nets, there happens to be a cramp-fish, for
the sea, like the land, has its venomous creatures, as Pliny records. This happens, not
only by direct contact but also from a venomous aura, which is transmitted to the man's
arm by the fishing-line or this spear; this is the explanation given by Dioscorides,.Pliny,
Mattioli, and others but from numerous experiments made by Stefano Lorenzim rt is now
certain that the fish can do this by bodily contact only, and that not every part of it has
this faculty but only certain sickle-shaped muscles. The stupefying powers of the cramp-
fish and the remedies to be used are fully described by Sermert.

DISEASES OF WORKERS WITH WOOD

Next to corn and fruit the most useful thing that Nature has produced for man is trees
and woods, indeed, as Pliny justly says: "At first, man's food came from trees, he made
his cave softer with leaves and dressed in bark." Later, the saw was invented, and men
began to cut trees into boards and so to make houses and a thousand other things for
the use of mankind. We may conclude that Lyon in France was formerly built entirely of
Wood, for Seneca tells us that that city was burnt down in a single night; so that the
peasants who as usual came there in the early morning had not heard of this calamity,
and when they came near and saw no city there they were thunderstruck and marvelled
what had become of Lyon. Hence Seneca, where he deplores the misfortunes of
mankind, exclaims: "For centuries a wood, and in a moment, ashes." Even today in
regions far north there are cities built entirely of wood, Moscow, for instance, where
there are huge warehouses in which stand for sale houses ready-made of whatever kind is

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needed, large, small, and medium-sized to suit the buyer's fancy, so that in a few days
one can have a house all finished on a chosen site.

The carpenter's trade, though we class such men under one head, is subdivided into
several separate callings; some make only coaches and carriages, others casks and vats,
others only ships. Some only carve with the chisel ornamental frames for mirrors and
pictures; these are to be gilded later. Generally speaking, carpentering is a toilsome
business and greatly fatigues the workers, but those who suffer most are the men who
with a saw cut up trees into boards. This kind of work is very tiring; they place the
squared tree-trunks so that they rest on two logs, and one workman stands on the trunk,
the other under it while with a large saw they cut up the trunk, guided by lines painted
on it in red. Hippocrates in Regimen 1, describes admirably their method of working:
"As when sawyers cut up timber with a saw; one pulls the other pushes, though both are
of course doing the same thing; the man who presses downwards pulls at the man above
him, otherwise the saw could not move downwards; but if they use too much force they
will make a mess of the whole job." The man who is above the trunk has to work harder
than the man underneath for he has to pull a rather heavy saw upwards, but the man
working underneath suffers severely Gom the sawdust that keeps falling into his eyes and
his mouth too; this makes his eyes red and painful afterwards, for he has to keep
blinking them nearly all the time.

Those too who work at the lathe, especially when the wood is box, olive, or turpentine
tree or the like, find their task very fatiguing; for they are obliged to put an incessant
strain on the hands and arms in order to control the chisel and with it by degrees shave
off the right amount according to the design of the work; the right foot is always at work
to keep the wood that is to be shaped turning round and round; moreover they must
keep the eyes fixed on the work, and from that rotary motion of the wood the eyes
contract some injury from the material that they handle, except sometimes from cypress
wood, for there are persons who cannot endure its pungent smell, and it gives them
headache.

For carpenters I have no precautions to suggest except this: They should be moderate
and not overwork, lest they bring diseases on themselves by being too much set on
making money, and so by refusing to give in be forced later on to take a holiday from
their business for many days. Gentle rubbing with oil will be beneficial, as it is for all
workers who are exhausted by overwork. They must also consider their eyes, and to
lessen their suffering as much as may be they should now and again stop working; and if
these are subject to pain and redness they should be bathed with mild lotings, e.g. barley-
water, violet-water, or woman's milk. But if from some other cause they are attacked by
acute diseases, the doctor should be as cautious about administering strong remedies as
in the case of other workers whose strength has been seriously exhausted by excessive
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