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Main Title Our children's toxic legacy : how science and law fail to protect us from pesticides /

Author Wargo, John,

Publisher Yale University Press,

Year Published 1998

OCLC Number 39253355

ISBN 0300074468; 9780300074468

Subjects Pesticides--Toxicology. ; Pesticides--Law and legislation--United States. ; Children--Health risk assessment. ; Pesticides--Environmental aspects. ; Gesundheitsgefährdung.--(DE-588)4071808-6. ; Kind.--(DE-588)4030550-8. ; Lebensmittel.--(DE-588)4034870-2. ; Lebensmittelrecht.--(DE-588)4034898-2. ; Pestizidbelastung.--(DE-588)4173944-9. ; USA.--(DE-588)4078704-7.

Holdings

Library	Call Number	Location	Last Modified
EJBM	RA1270.P4W34 1998	Headquarters Library/Washington,DC	02/09/2001
ELAM	RA1270.P4W34 1998	Region 5 Library/Chicago,IL	05/09/2017
ELDM	RA1270.P4W34 1998	CCTE/GLTED Library/Duluth,MN	10/06/2006
ERAM	RA1270.P4 W34 1998	Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA	08/31/2009
ESAM	RA1270.P4W34 1998	Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA	09/12/1998

Edition 2nd ed.

Collation xvi, 390 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-379) and index.

Contents Notes

Defining the problem: The global experiment -- The urgency of Malaria -- Resistance: a race against time -- Evolving law: Beyond control: pesticide law before 1972 -- EPA as the gatekeeper of risk -- Risk assessment and tolerance setting: the Delaney paradox -- Evolving knowledge: The human ecology of pesticide residues -- The susceptibility of children -- The diet of a child -- Averaging games: simplification of exposure and risk -- The complex mixture problem -- Managing the coevolution of knowledge and law: Fractured law, fractured science: restating the pesticide problem -- Toward reform.

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