Residue Reviews / Rückstands-Berichte : Residues of Pesticides and Other Contaminants in the Total Environment/ Rückstande von Pestiziden und anderen verunreinigenden Material in der gesamten Umwelt

That residues of pesticide and other contaminants in the total environment are of concern to everyone everywhere is 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 on es 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 govemmental 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 thesechemicals 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. Front Matter....Pages i-vii The mechanism of ethylene dibromide action on laying hens....Pages 1-11 Aflatoxin residues in food and feed derived from plant and animal sources....Pages 13-54 Human health and pesticides—Community Pesticide Studies....Pages 55-63 Bromophos and bromophos-ethyl residues....Pages 65-112 A review of the use and place of lindane in the protection of stored products from the ravages of insect pests....Pages 113-180 Back Matter....Pages 181-188