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Pesticides: Developments, impacts and controls

Edited by G A Best, Clyde River Purification Board and A D Ruthven, Scottish Agricultural Science Agency, UK

Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition No. 9

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.

ISBN 1 85573 811 2
ISBN-13: 978 1 85573 811 9
January 1995
180 pages  234 x 156mm  hardback  
£145.00 / US$245.00 / €175.00

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Contents

Monitoring and adapting to the changes in pesticide use profiles that occur in response to modern pest control and environmental requirements
Michael F. Wilson

Non-agricultural uses of herbicides: Triazines to glyphosate
R. P. Garnett

Synthetic pyrethroids success story
R. M. Perrin

Analysis of exposure to pesticides applied in a regulated environment
A. J. Gilbert

The assessment of operator risk from sheep dipping operations using organophosphate based dips
B. P. Nutley, H. F. Berry, M. Roff, R. H. Brown, K. J. M. Niven and A. Robertson

Application technology
G. A. Matthews

Pesticides in Foodstuffs
P. Smith

The poisoning of non-target animals
K. Hunter

Assessing the environmental impact of sheep dip on surface waters in Northern Ireland
R. H. Foy, C. Clenaghan, S. Jess and S. H. Mitchell

Pesticides in freshwaters from arable use
P. A. Chave

Pesticides in groundwater
A. D. Carter and A. I. J. Heather

The removal of pesticides during drinking water treatment
B. T. Croll

Pesticide usage in marine fish farming - the role of the chemist
Ian M. Davies

Assessing risk should not be a hazardous business
T. E. Tooby

The control of pesticides in water: The EQO/EQS approach
Melanie G. C. Quinn

Storage of pesticides and the training of users
J. C. Seddon

Pesticide loading to the north sea: The red list reductions
M. J. Pearson