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RECORD NUMBER: 16 OF 38Main Title | Pesticide hazard : a global health and environmental audit / | |||||||||||
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Author | Dinham, Barbara. | |||||||||||
Publisher | Zed Books, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1993 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 26809943 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 185649201X (hb) 1856492028 (pb) | |||||||||||
Subjects | Pesticides--Health aspects ; Pesticides--Environmental aspects ; Pesticides--adverse effects ; Environmental Pollution | |||||||||||
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Collation | 228 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Notes | Background to pesticide hazards -- International regulation for pesticides -- Controls on pesticide trade -- About the Pesticide hazard -- Issues at stake -- Trading in hazard -- Global pesticide market -- Pesticide trade and the FAO code of conduct -- Exporters' responsibilities -- European exports -- Production moving to the Third World -- Trade liberalisation and the free market -- Health and safety -- Numbers game -- Agricultural labourers face highest risk -- Poor countries/poor statistics -- Chronic exposure: a chronic problem -- Records over-emphasise suicides -- Aerial spraying: a blanket hazard -- Storage and disposal: limitations -- Food contamination -- Pesticide poisoning: can doctors diagnose? -- Labelling: not an antidote -- Dare we spray? environment and alternatives -- Pesticides in the environment -- Insect resistance -- Water pollution -- Destruction of non-target animals -- Localised pollution -- Aerial spraying -- Alternatives -- Country reports -- Brazil -- Costa Rica -- Ecuador -- Paraguay -- Venezuela -- Egypt -- South Africa -- India -- Malaysia. |