Decontamination of Pesticide Residues in the Environment: Atlantic City Meetings of the American Chemical Society September 1968

ISBN-13: 9781461584575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 214 str.

Gunther, Francis a.

Opis

That residues of pesticide and other "foreign" chemicals in food- stuffs are of concern to everyone everywhere is amply attested by the reception accorded previous volumes of "Residue Reviews" and by the gratifying enthusiasm, sincerity, and efforts shown by all the in- dividuals from whom manuscripts have been solicited. Despite much propaganda to the contrary, there can never be any serious question that pest-control chemicals and food-additive chemicals are essential to adequate food production, manufacture, marketing, and storage, yet without continuing surveillance and intelligent control some of those that persist in our foodstuffs could at times conceivably endanger the public health. Ensuring safety-in-use of these many chemicals is a dynamic challenge, for established ones are continually being dis- placed by newly developed ones more acceptable to food tech- nologists, pharmacologists, toxicologists, and changing pest-control requirements in progressive food-producing economies. These matters are of genuine concern to increasing numbers of governmental agencies and legislative bodies around the world, for some of these chemicals have resulted in a few mishaps from improper use. Adequate safety-in-use evaluations of any of these chemicals per- sisting into our foodstuffs are not simple matters, and they incorporate the considered judgments of many individuals highly trained in a variety of complex biological, chemical, food technological, medical, pharmacological, and toxicological disciplines.

Spis treści

to the symposium: Decontamination of pesticide residues in the environment.- Attenuation of pesticidal residues on seeds.- The decontamination of animal feeds.- Reduction of parathion residue on celery.- Accelerated removal of pesticides from domestic animals.- Effects of processing on pesticides in foods.- Canning operations that reduce insecticide levels in prepared foods and in solid food wastes.- Chemical and thermal methods for disposal of pesticides.- Some research approaches toward minimizing herbicidal residues in the environment.- Decontamination of pesticides in soils.- Interaction of diquat and paraquat with clay minerals and carbon in aqueous solutions.- Kinetics of hydrolysis of diazinon and diazoxon.- Biodegradation kinetics of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid by aquatic microorganisms.- Manuscripts in Press.