Residue Reviews / Ruckstands-Berichte: Residues of Pesticides and other Foreign Chemicals in Foods and Feeds / Ruckstande von Pesticiden und anderen Fremdstoffen in Nahrungs- und Futtermitteln

That residues of pesticides and other "foreign" chemicals in foodstuffs to everyone everywhere is attested by the reception accorded are of concern previous volumes of "Residue Reviews", and! by the gratifying enthusiasm, sincerity, and efforts shown by the individuals I have asked to prepare manuscripts. Many manuscripts on residue affairs are in preparation, but the field is so large and the non-polemical interests in it so varied that the editor and the Advisory Board will welcome suggestions for topics con­ sidered suitable and timely for review in this international book-series. There can be no serious question that pesticide 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 could at times conceivably endanger the public health. The object of "Residue Reviews" is to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy, and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of residues of these chemicals in foods, in feeds, and in transformed food products. These reviews are either general or specific, but properly they may lie in the domains of analytical chemistry and its methodology, biochemistry, human and animal medicine, legislation, pharmacology, physiology, regulation, and toxicology; certain affairs in the realm of food technology that are concerned specifically with pesticide and other food-additive problems are also appropriate subject matter. That residues of pesticide and other "foreign" chemicals in foodstuffs are of concern to everyone everywhere is amply attested by the reception accorded previous volumes of "Residue Reviews" and by the gratifying enthusiasm, sincerity, and efforts shown by all the individuals 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 ones are continually being displaced by newly developed ones more acceptable to food technologists, pharma­ cologists, toxicologists, and changing pest-control requirements in progressive food-producing economies. These matters are also of genuine concern to increasing numbers of governmental 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 these chemicals persisting into our food­ stuffs 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-iv Use of pesticides: A report....Pages 1-22 Effects of “Use of Pesticides” from an industrial viewpoint....Pages 23-26 The California Pesticide Regulatory Program....Pages 27-32 The President’s Science Advisory Committee Report on the Use of Pesticides and the University of California’s policy on research and extension associated with pesticide chemicals....Pages 33-41 The method of conditioned reflexes in toxicology and its application for determining the toxicity of small quantities of pesticides....Pages 42-74 Recent developments in the detection and determination of pesticides and their residues by oscillographic polarography....Pages 75-86 Insect chemosterilants: Their chemistry and application....Pages 87-103 Enforcement of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act in the United States....Pages 104-135 Thin-layer chromatography in the determination of pesticide residues....Pages 136-161 Back Matter....Pages 162-165