Basic Guide To Pesticides: Their Characteristics And Hazards : Their Characteristics & Hazards

ISBN-13: 9781560322535 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 283 str.

Rachel Carson; Shirley Briggs

Opis

This volume provides physical properties of over 700 pesticides and transformation products and contaminents plus their toxic effects to mammals, other forms of life and the environment.

Spis treści

Selections of pesticide materials included; sources of information; how to use the guide; the charts, names of pesticides and how to use index of names; classes of pesticides; chief pesticide use; persistence; toxicity effects on mammals; adverse effects on other non-target species - physical properties; varying vulnerability to pesticide poisoning; index of pesticide names; charts of pesticide characteristics, alphabetically by name; toxic characteristics of classes of pesticide ingredients; references; using pesticides; alternatives to pesticides. Appendix: a review of United States federal regulation on pesticides.

O autorze

Rachel Carson Counsel Inc.\,