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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . Roughly 70 million households make more than 4 billion pesticide applications per year, an average of 57 applications per household per year. About 25 percent of these exposures involved pesticide poisoning symptoms. Over half of all reported exposures involved children under age 6. According to toxicologist William Pease of the University of California-Berkeley School of Public Health, indoor use of pesticide products in the home is the main source of exposure for children.