User:Saltrabook/Example: Pineapple harvest workers



1. Job description 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple Citation from the pages (locked for edition without permisison due to threat of destruction!!) Three-quarters of pineapples sold in Europe are grown in Costa Rica, where pineapple production is highly industrialised. Growers typically use 20 kg of pesticides per hectare in each growing cycle,a process that may affect soil quality and biodiversity. The pesticides – organophosphates, organochlorines and hormone disruptors – have the potential to affect workers' health and can contaminate local drinking water supplies. Many of these chemicals have potential to be carcinogens, and may be related to birth defects.

Because of commercial pressures, many pineapple workers – 60% of whom are Nicaraguan – in Costa Rica are paid low wages.European supermarkets' price-reduction policies have lowered growers' incomes.One major pineapple producer contests these claims.

2. Health and environmental risk assessment

Occupational and environmental health in pineapple farming

3. Prevention

http://www.altamirapineapple.com/gallery.html

4. Research needs - a problem in Panamá?