"Based on a symposium sponsored by the Division of Pesticide Chemistry at the Second Chemical Congress of the North American Continent (180th ACS National Meeting), Las Vegas, Nevada, August 26-27, 1980." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Trends in chemical residues including reentry considerations / Jack R. Plimmer -- Methodology for estimating the dietary intake of pesticide residue / R.D. Schmitt and M.J. Nelson -- The biophysiologic analysis of chemical residues in human tissues / P.H. Kurtz -- The safe level concept and the rapid field method : a new approach to solving the reentry problem / James B. Knaak and Yutaka Iwata -- Monitoring pesticide safety programs by measuring blood cholinesterase and analyzing blood and urine for pesticides and their metabolites / S.A. Peoples and J.B. Knaak -- Regional considerations in worker reentry / Herbert N. Nigg and James H. Stamper -- Pesticide safety program of the California Department of Food and Agriculture based upon measurements of potential workplace exposure and the elimination of excess exposures / K.T. Maddy and S.C. Edmiston -- Workers in the agricultural environment : dermal exposure to carbaryl / Jay C. Maitlen, C. Ronald Sell, Leslie M. Mcdonough, and Stanford N. Fertig -- Development of methodology for determining human exposure to chlorobenzilate / S.S. Brady, K.A. Levy, H.F. Enos, R.C. Duncan, and C.D. Pfaffenberger -- Agricultural applicators exposure to 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid / R.G. Nash, P.C. Kearney, J.C. Maitlen, C.R. Sell, and S.N. Fertig -- Review of studies with 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid in humans including applicators under field conditions / M.L. Leng, J.C. Ramsey, W.H. Braun, and T.L. Lavy -- The assessment of potential health hazards to orchardists spraying pesticides / C.A. Franklin, N.I. Muir, and R. Greenhalgh -- Protective clothing studies in the field : an alternative to reentry / John E. Davies, H.F. Enos, A. Barquet, C. Morgade, L.J. Peters, J.X. Danauskas, and V.H. Freed -- Reentry : an industrial viewpoint / John F. McCarthy -- An animal model for testing organophosphates in the field : S, S, S-tributyl phosphorotrithioate and the scaleless chicken / B.W. Wilson, C.M. Cisson, W.R. Randall, J.E. Woodrow, J.N. Seiber, and J.B. Knaak -- List of common names mentioned in text and chemical names.