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Table 1 Tabulation of Entries in the U.S. EPA Incident Data System of human pesticide poisoning incidents associated with neonicotinoid insecticides over a 60-month period from 2018 through 2022

From: Human acute poisoning incidents associated with neonicotinoid pesticides in the U.S. Incident Data System (IDS) database from 2018–2022 – frequency and severity show public health risks, regulatory failures

  1. Each incident represents an individual person; these values should be considered rough estimates given the lack of individual details in the data reports. The severity of the injury is reported as it was reported in the EPA database except in 3 cases for which a seizure was reported, but the incident was classified as H-C (moderate) and which here is classified as H-B (major) consistent with EPA ratings