Search through reported cases of human pesticide exposure in Illinois

The Illinois Department of Agriculture is in charge of investigating complaints of pesticide misuse. It started tracking human exposure cases in internal data in 2019. Since then, there have been 33 complaints of human pesticide exposure.

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Penalties are based on a point system, as the graphics below explain.

_{Top image: Paul Reynolds sprays fungicide in Champaign County, Illinois, on Wednesday, July 14, 2010. photo by Heather Coit, The News-Gazette}