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FQPA IMPLEMENTATION TO REDUCE PESTICIDE RESIDUE RISKS: PART II: IMPLEMENTATION ALTERNATIVES AND STRATEGIES [PDF]

open access: yes
Implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) is fraught with difficulty due to the divergent perspectives and demands of stakeholders in the process.
Batie, Sandra S.   +2 more
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Prospects for a certified mint supply chain in Morocco based on an assessment of consumers' willingness to pay [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In Morocco, there is a weak control of the quality of fruits and vegetables on the domestic market. The present study assesses the prospects for a certified mint value chain (either complying with legal criteria of maximum residue level or using organic ...
Ait El Mekki, Abdelkader   +3 more
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Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Degradation dynamics and risk assessment of chlorpyriphos in/on cabbage under different culinary processes

open access: yesOrbital: The Electronic Journal of Chemistry, 2008
Chlorpyriphos 20 EC was applied at the rate of 500 g a.i. ha-1 in Cabbage heads and the samples harvested at intervals of 0 (2 hours after application), 1 and 7 days after application.
Md. Wasim Aktar   +3 more
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The multi-barrier fate of strobilurin fungicides in Dendrobium officinale: uptake, sequestration in root cell walls, and high cumulative dietary risk

open access: yesEcotoxicology and Environmental Safety
The high residual levels and prolonged persistence of strobilurin fungicides prompted this systematic investigation into the environmental fate, accumulation mechanisms, and dietary exposure risks of five key compounds: azoxystrobin, kresoxim-methyl ...
Yuan Lei   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Residues re-open argument on organic standards [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The residue contents in organic food is significantly distinguishable from conventionally produced food. While in conventional products residues can often be detected organic food is to a high percentage (95%) free of ...
Huber, Beate
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Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The analysis of dieldrin residues in the brain, liver and muscles of the African catfish Clarias gariepinus (Burchell 1822) chronically exposed to dieldrin [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Mature adult Clarias gariepinus were obtained at the ABRU hatchery in Sonning (UK), where they had beenbred and reared for several years. These were exposed to two concentrations of dieldrin in water (2.4 mu g super(-1) and 4.0 mu g super(-1).
Eyo, A.A., Lamai, S.L.
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