Agricultural Pesticide Exposure Data Bases for Risk Assessment
- 1 January 1992
- book chapter
- Published by Springer Nature in Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
- Vol. 126, 1-85
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9748-9_1
Abstract
Use of pesticides1 is widespread in agriculture and elsewhere. The hazards of these compounds depend on their toxicity and on the level of exposure. This is true not only for workers but also for the general public, although the routes of uptake may be quite different.Keywords
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