Pesticides : health, safety and the environment /

• Main Author: Matthews, G. A.
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; Ames, Iowa, USA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
• Subjects: Pesticides.; Pesticides > Environmental aspects.; Pesticides > Health aspects.; Pesticides > Aspect de l'environnement.; Pesticides > Aspect sanitaire.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Pest Control.; Electronic books; Electronic books.
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Over the last five decades, pesticides have undoubtedly helped to increase agricultural production and control vectors of disease, however the environmental impact of long term agro-chemical use has been cause for concern along with the effects on human health. In "Pesticides; Health, Safety an...

Table of Contents:

• Pesticides and agricultural development
• Approval of pesticides
• Application of pesticides
• Operator exposure
• Spray drift, bystander, resident and worker exposure
• Environmental aspects of spray drift
• Residues in food
• The future of pesticides.