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Title: Assessing Exposures and Reducing Risks to People from the Use of Pesticides

Author
item KRIEGER, ROBERT - UC RIVERSIDE
item Ragsdale, Nancy
item Seiber, James

Submitted to: American Chemical Society Symposium Series
Publication Type: Book / Chapter
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/1/2005
Publication Date: 2/1/2007
Citation: Krieger, Robert I., Ragsdale, Nancy, Seiber, James N. (eds). 2007. Assessing Exposures and Reducing Risks to People from the Use of Pesticides. ACS Symposium Series 951. NY:Oxford University Press. 304 p.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Through the use of pesticides, modern agriculture has seen increased yields and more predictable food production, reduction in labor, and lower acreages in production to yield a given quantity of food. However, pesticides, by their very nature, are used to kill or interfere with the normal life cycles of living organisms that are classed as pests. This may give rise to ecological concerns when toxicity occurs in non-target organism, exposures exceed expected amounts, or drift damages offsite environments. Effective risk management is based upon expert experience and scientific data including accurate determination of the determinants of pesticide exposure such as dose, sources, routes, and duration - the topic of this book. Topics are grouped into exposure assessment, biomonitoring, and environmental measurements and mitigation. Chemical exposure assessment is examined from the perspective of risk assessment components.