Ebook: Residue Reviews: Residues of Pesticides and Other Contaminants in the Total Environment
- Tags: Applied Ecology, Ecotoxicology, Ecology
- Series: Residue Reviews 45
- Year: 1973
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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That residues of pesticide and other contaminants in the total environment are of concern to everyone everywhere is attested by the reception accorded previous volumes of "Residue Reviews" and by the gratifying enthusiasm, sincerity, and efforts shown by all the in dividuals from whom manuscripts have been solicited. Despite much propaganda to the contrary, there can never be any serious question that pest-control chemicals and food-additive chemicals are essential to adequate food production, manufacture, marketing, and storage, yet without continuing surveillance and intelligent control some of those that persist in our foodstuffs could at times conceivably endanger the public health. Ensuring safety-in-use of these many chemicals is a dynamic challenge, for established ones are continually being dis placed by newly developed ones more acceptable to food tech nologists, pharmacologists, toxicologists, and changing pest-control requirements in progressive. food-producing economies. These matters are of genuine concern to increasing numbers of governmental agencies and legislative bodies around the world, for some of these chemicals have resulted in a few mishaps from improper use. Adequate safety-in-use evaluations of any of these chemicals per sisting into our foodstuffs are not simple matters, and they incorporate the considered judgments of many individuals highly trained in a variety of complex biological, chemical, food technological, medical, pharmacological, and toxicological disciplines.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Pesticides and the soil fauna....Pages 1-79
Toxicological evaluation of food additives and pesticide residues and their “acceptable daily intakes” for man: The role of WHO, in conjunction with FAO....Pages 81-93
Chemical and microbial degradation of ten selected pesticides in aquatic systems....Pages 95-124
Microbiological methods for detecting dressings on treated seeds....Pages 125-143
Interactions between herbicides and plant pathogens....Pages 145-177
Back Matter....Pages 179-188
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Pesticides and the soil fauna....Pages 1-79
Toxicological evaluation of food additives and pesticide residues and their “acceptable daily intakes” for man: The role of WHO, in conjunction with FAO....Pages 81-93
Chemical and microbial degradation of ten selected pesticides in aquatic systems....Pages 95-124
Microbiological methods for detecting dressings on treated seeds....Pages 125-143
Interactions between herbicides and plant pathogens....Pages 145-177
Back Matter....Pages 179-188
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