Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety
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WCAHS is dedicated to improving the health and safety of farmers, farmworkers, and their families in Western agriculture.
WCAHS investigator Dr. Chris Simmons is helping Chico based almond grower Rory Crowley improve his orchard's health with biosolarization, an alternative to toxic soil fumigation
Wildfire smoke filled the air across much of the West this summer. That was certainly the case in Davis where researchers are studying the potential health risks of wildfire smoke
We received exciting news this fall that an additional research project, “Reducing occupational exposure to zoonotic pathogens in California dairy farmworkers,” has been awarded funding from the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety, increasing the number of primary WCAHS research projects to five. The new project aims to lower dairy worker exposure to infectious disease spread through infected cows by better understanding which infectious agents are most prevalent in large dairies and which worker tasks and behaviors are producing the greatest risk for exposure
You know the quote. In the case of WCAHS, this is our Evaluation Core, headed by Dr