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ensure accuracy. Protecting Youth at Work: Health, Safety, and
Development of Working Children and Adolescents in the United
StatesBetween 1985 and 1992, the Environmental Protection Agency
reported more than 750 cases of reported exposure to pesticides
involving youngsters under 18. The data on which these figures
are based have been shown to have numerous weaknesses, such as
limited coverage, underreporting of exposures, and lack of key
data (U.S. General Accounting Office, 1993); therefore, the
number of reported cases is likely to be an undercount of actual
exposures. Although several reviews have addressed the
association of cancer and pesticide exposure among farmers and
permanent farm help (Council on Scientific Affairs, 1988; Zahm
and Blair, 1993; Zahm et al., 1997), few population-based
studies have been published about