Pesticides : developments, impacts, and controls /

This volume covers the developments in pesticide usage, with particular emphasis on the regulations that safeguard users, consumers and the environment. It provides a comprehensive guide to the use of pesticides and the efforts of manufacturers to develop pesticides that are both effective and envir...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Best, Gerald A. (Gerald Arthur), 1941-, Ruthven, Douglas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] : The Royal Society of Chemistry, 1995.
Series:Special publication (Chemical Society (Great Britain)) ; no. 174.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This volume covers the developments in pesticide usage, with particular emphasis on the regulations that safeguard users, consumers and the environment. It provides a comprehensive guide to the use of pesticides and the efforts of manufacturers to develop pesticides that are both effective and environmentally benign. The difficulties and hazards associated with their applications, their environmental effects, particularly in wate and the control of storage, uses and residue levels in non-agricultural habitat and in foodstuffs are also discussed.
Item Description:"Proceedings of the Analytical Division's symposium of the Royal Society of Chemistry Annual Chemical Congress, held on 10-13 April 1995, at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK"--Title page verso
Physical Description:1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
ISBN:9781845693183
1845693183