Ebook: Pesticides: Managing Risks and Optimizing Benefits

Content: Examining risks and benefits associated with pesticide use : an overview / James N. Seiber and Nancy N. Ragsdale --
Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 : major changes to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and impacts of the changes to pesticide regulatory decisions / Stephen L. Johnson and Joseph E. Bailey --
Evaluating exposures of infants and children to pesticides / R.D. Thomas --
Issues related to screening and testing for endocrine disrupting chemicals / James C. Lamb, IV and Shanna M. Brown --
Aggregate and cumulative exposure and risk assessment / Charles B. Breckenridge, Robert L. Sielken, Jr., and James T. Stevens --
New science, new processes, and new problems : the food quality protection act from a state perspective / Jean-Mari Peltier --
Natural products as leads for new pesticides with reduced risks / Gary D. Crouse --
Precision farming : technologies and information as risk-reduction tools / Franklin R. Hall --
Human exposure assessment in risk perception and risk management / R.I. Krieger --
Impact of patent policy on bioremediation with living organisms / H.N. Nigg, D.R. Saliwanchik, and R. Saliwanchik --
The role of benefits in the regulatory arena / Nancy N. Ragsdale and Ronald E. Stinner --
Pesticides and human health : the influence of pesticides on levels of naturally-occurring plant and fungal toxins / Carl K. Winter --
Importance of pesticides in integrated pest management / D. Raymond Forney --
The economic, health, and environmental benefits of pesticide use / Scott Rawlins --
Beneficial impacts of pesticide use for consumers / Leonard P. Gianessi --
Global harmonization of pesticide registrations / K.S. Rao --
Foreign competition and trade / John J. VanSickle --
Marketing agricultural products internationally / Robert L. Epstein and Carolyn Fillmore Wilson --
Current status of domestic and international controls for methyl bromide and the status of alternatives / Ralph T. Ross --
Pesticide disposal in developing countries : international training course to manage risks from obsolete pesticides / Janice King Jensen, Kevin Costello, and Kay Rudolph.