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Human Toxicology, 1988
1 Chemical treatment of crops is essential not only to reduce losses but also to prevent certain food related diseases. 2 Pesticides, unlike many other compounds, are designed to kill higher organisms and thus pose special toxicological problems. 3 It is important to understand the mechanism of action of the pesticide in the target organism in order
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1 Chemical treatment of crops is essential not only to reduce losses but also to prevent certain food related diseases. 2 Pesticides, unlike many other compounds, are designed to kill higher organisms and thus pose special toxicological problems. 3 It is important to understand the mechanism of action of the pesticide in the target organism in order
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Pesticide Regulation and Pesticide Prices
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 2005Pesticides are an increasingly important input in crop production. In North America there has been a longstanding concern by farmers in close proximity to the Canada–U.S. border that either differences in access to compounds or price differentials adversely affect competitive positions.
David Freshwater, Cameron Short
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Pesticides and the Pesticide Industry
BioScience, 1964wide for controlling disease-transmitting pests and also reducing populations of nuisance pests. Practically every authority who has studied the use of pesticides has concluded that they are essential for production of food and protection of public health. Why then has there been so much public and private furor recently over the use of pesticides? Why
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