Chemical pesticide markets, health risks and residues /
Harris, Jeremy,
Chemical pesticide markets, health risks and residues / Jeremy Harris, CABI Bioscience (UK Centre), Ascot, UK. - 1 online resource (vii, 54 pages) : illustrations, charts. - Biopesticides series ; 1 . - Biopesticides series ; 1. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chemical pesticide markets -- Pesticide exposure and health effects -- Pesticide residues -- Obsolete pesticide stocks.
Access limited to subscribing institution.
A short book designed to provide a review of information on the scale of manufacture, import, export and use of chemical pesticides, examples of direct risks to human welfare in terms of acute poisonings caused by occupational exposure and pesticide residues in food, and examples of problems with the storage of obsolete stocks of pesticides in developing countries. The main emphasis is on acute problems in developing countries, particularly in Latin America, Asia and Africa, but some information is also provided about developed countries. There are four chapters (Chemical pesticide markets, Pesticide exposure and health effects, Pesticide residues and Obsolete pesticide stocks) and an index is included.
Pesticides--Toxicology.
Pesticides--Developing countries.
Pesticide residues in food--Developing countries.
Pesticides--Environmental aspects.
International Trade.
Marketing and Distribution.
Pesticides and Drugs (General)
Pesticide and Drug Residues and Ecotoxicology, (New March 2000)
Pollution and Degradation.
Food Contamination, Residues and Toxicology.
Human Health and the Environment.
Human Toxicology and Poisoning, (New March 2000)
Man.
Agricultural entomology.
Contamination.
Environment.
Exposure.
Foods.
Health hazards.
Herbicides.
International trade.
Manufacture.
Markets.
Nematicides.
Nematology.
Nontarget effects.
Occupational hazards.
Occupational health.
Pesticide residues.
Pesticides.
Plant nematology.
Plant pathology.
Risk.
Stocks.
Storage.
Electronic books.
RA1270.P4 / H365 2000eb
363.738/4
Chemical pesticide markets, health risks and residues / Jeremy Harris, CABI Bioscience (UK Centre), Ascot, UK. - 1 online resource (vii, 54 pages) : illustrations, charts. - Biopesticides series ; 1 . - Biopesticides series ; 1. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chemical pesticide markets -- Pesticide exposure and health effects -- Pesticide residues -- Obsolete pesticide stocks.
Access limited to subscribing institution.
A short book designed to provide a review of information on the scale of manufacture, import, export and use of chemical pesticides, examples of direct risks to human welfare in terms of acute poisonings caused by occupational exposure and pesticide residues in food, and examples of problems with the storage of obsolete stocks of pesticides in developing countries. The main emphasis is on acute problems in developing countries, particularly in Latin America, Asia and Africa, but some information is also provided about developed countries. There are four chapters (Chemical pesticide markets, Pesticide exposure and health effects, Pesticide residues and Obsolete pesticide stocks) and an index is included.
Pesticides--Toxicology.
Pesticides--Developing countries.
Pesticide residues in food--Developing countries.
Pesticides--Environmental aspects.
International Trade.
Marketing and Distribution.
Pesticides and Drugs (General)
Pesticide and Drug Residues and Ecotoxicology, (New March 2000)
Pollution and Degradation.
Food Contamination, Residues and Toxicology.
Human Health and the Environment.
Human Toxicology and Poisoning, (New March 2000)
Man.
Agricultural entomology.
Contamination.
Environment.
Exposure.
Foods.
Health hazards.
Herbicides.
International trade.
Manufacture.
Markets.
Nematicides.
Nematology.
Nontarget effects.
Occupational hazards.
Occupational health.
Pesticide residues.
Pesticides.
Plant nematology.
Plant pathology.
Risk.
Stocks.
Storage.
Electronic books.
RA1270.P4 / H365 2000eb
363.738/4