Pesticides: Developments, Impacts and Controls (Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition)

This volume covers the latest developments in pesticide usage, with particular emphasis on the regulations that safeguard users, consumers and the environment. It provides a comprehensive guide to the use of pesticides: from the efforts of manufacturers to develop pesticides that are both effective and environmentally benign; the difficulties and hazards associated with their applications; their environmental effects, particularly in water; and the control of storage, uses and residue levels in non-agricultural habitat and in foodstuffs. front-matter......Page 1 Monitoring and Adapting to the Changes in Pesticide Use Profiles That Occur in Response to Modern Pest Control and Environmental Requirements......Page 11 Non-agricultural Uses of Herbicides: Triazines to Glyphosate......Page 18 Synthetic Pyrethroids Success Story......Page 29 Analysis of Exposure to Pesticides Applied in a Regulated Environment......Page 38 The Assessment of Operator Risk from Sheep Dipping Operations Using Organophosphate Based Dips......Page 53 Application Technology......Page 64 Pesticides in Foodstuffs......Page 72 The Poisoning of Non-target Animals......Page 84 Assessing the Environmental Impact of Sheep Dip on Surface Waters in Northern Ireland......Page 97 Pesticides in Freshwaters from Arable Use......Page 110 Pesticides in Groundwater......Page 122 The Removal of Pesticides During Drinking Water Treatment......Page 134 Pesticide Usage in Marine Fish Farming - The Role of the Chemist......Page 145 Assessing Risk Should Not Be a Hazardous Business......Page 152 The Control of Pesticides in Water: The EQO/EQS Approach......Page 160 Storage of Pesticides and the Training of Users......Page 165 Pesticide Loading to the North Sea: the Red List Reductions......Page 171 Subject Index......Page 183 This volume covers the developments in pesticide usage, with particular emphasis on the regulations that safeguard users, consumers and the environment. It provides a comprehensive guide to the use of pesticides and the efforts of manufacturers to develop pesticides that are both effective and environmentally benign. The difficulties and hazards associated with their applications, their environmental effects, particularly in wate and the control of storage, uses and residue levels in non-agricultural habitat and in foodstuffs are also discussed.