Aim of special session Pesticides are necessary in the modern agriculture and their use is unavoidable. However, very often misuse and abuse bring about unacceptable risk to agricultural workers and the environment. How to promote a safe us of these compounds? Worldwide known field experts will discuss this topic. Since it wil be a round table with an open discussion among speakers and of speakers with public, no title of presentation has been asked to the persons invited to contribute

Claudio Colosio¹, Gert van der Laan², Stefan Mandic-Rajicevic¹, Erik Jors³, Andrea Rother⁴, Susan Brumby⁵, Shengli Niu⁶

¹Department of Health Sciences of the University of Milan and International Centre for Rural Health of the S. Paolo Hospital, Italy

²Foundation Learning and Developing Occupational Health, PE Leusden, Netherlands

³Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

⁴Division of Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

⁵National Centre for Farmer Health, Western District Health Service, Hamilton VIC Australia

⁶International Labour Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland