Pesticides -The Impacts of Pesticide Exposure 92 for its part believes that the pesticides can be connected with 14, 0 % of the occupational injuries in the agricultural sector and of 10, 0 % of all the deaths (Córdoba, 2000).In the whole world, 148 epidemic break outs were registered between 1951 and 1990 because of the pesticides, causing 24,731 poisonings and 1065 deaths (Levine R.S, Doull J., 1992).In the developing countries, the pesticides cause up to one million poisoning cases and up to 20,000 deaths, annually (Durán J.J., Collí J., 2000).According to the International Organization of Consumers Union, an agricultural worker dies every 4 hours in developing countries due to poisoning by pesticides, which is equivalent to more than 10,000 deaths per year, and another 375,000 poison themselves with these products (United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, 1986).The Overseeing System in Public Health (SIVIGILA, 2005) informed that during year 2005 in which the study was carried out, the Department of Putumayo was in the country, the region with major poisonings incidence due to pesticides (see chart., 1), 8,777 cases were reported for 2006, 13,179 cases for 2007, 18,105 cases for 2008, and 19,723 cases of poisoning appeared already for pesticides during 2009 (SIVIGILA, 2009).