EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT OF PESTICIDES TO FARMERS IN TERMS OF AUTOIMMUNE SYSTEM (CASE STUDY: FARMERS IN CIBEUREUM VILLAGE, KERTASARI DISTRICT)

• Main Author: RAHMADITA NIM: 25315315, KANDINA
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/28378
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The use of pesticides certainly cannot be separated from agricultural activities to obtain resistantion from pest problems. However, most of farmers are not aware of toxic exposure caused by pesticides which led by inadequate knowledge of pesticide warehouse management within local farmers in Indonesia. This study aims to see dermal exposure concentration and the effect of pesticide exposure on farmworkers which is characterized by increasing of Antinuclear Antibody (ANA) level. This research was conducted on male farmers in Cibeureum Village, Kertasari District, Bandung Regency. For the control sample, conducted on organic farmers in Cisarua, Bogor. Dermal exposure sampling was taken to farmers in the morning when farmer do pesticide spraying activity, using pad sampling for dermal exposure. ANA test sampling for exposed farmers and control farmers do by certified laboratory. From this research founded that farmers exposed by organophosphate pesticide with active substance diazinon, fenitrothion, methidathion, malathion, chlorpyrifos, parathion, and profenofos with concentration ranged from 0 - 5,705 mg/L and carbamate pesticide with active substance carbofuran, MIPC, and BPMC with concentration ranged from 0 - 2,485 mg/L. The concentration was converted to uptake accumulation and it was found that uptake was associated with pesticide concentration (correlation value between 0.484 - 0.731 with significance result near-0.000). From this study also obtained that uptake of diazinon, malathion, chlorpyrifos, and MIPC affect the increase of ANA levels of farmers in the blood due to continuous exposure over a long period of time.