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Pesticides - Contemporary Roles in Agriculture, Health, and Environment (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979)
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Pesticides - Contemporary Roles in Agriculture, Health, and Environment (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979)
Series: Contemporary Issues in Science and Society
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Chemical pesticides continue as a point of major controversy in our
society. Increasingly stringent regulatory actions on the part of
state and federal agencies, exemplified by the RPAR (Rebuttable
Presump tion Against Registration) program of the Environmental
Protection Agency, are supported by environmental groups and are
generally op posed or viewed with skepticism by agriculturalists.
The energy crisis invokes other questions on benefits of pesticides
versus nonchemical controls and effects on labor utilization. As
DDT and other persistent pesticides have been phased out, the more
labile, short-lived chemicals have filled the voids in pest
management systems; and effects on nontarget species appear to have
declined in recent years as the shift occurred. However, nagging
ques tions of the hazard to man and other nontarget species from
long-term, low-level exposure to pesticides are frequently raised;
and recent suggestions that certain well-known and long-used
chemicals cause cancer, increase sterility, and initiate or augment
other deleterious effects in test animals have instilled a sense of
caution and raised con cern about the continued availability of
some pesticides previously considered safe. So the facade of
concern and confusion continues. This book is an outgrowth of a
symposium at the meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in February, 1978. An introduction has been
added, and some of the papers have been modified since
presentation."
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