Toxicity of Pesticides & Herbicides

• Pest Control Practices in Connecticut Public Schools
• Peptide toxins
• Toxicity of Pesticides
• Signs and Symptoms of Pesticide Poisoning
• The Public and Pesticides: Exploring the Interface
• Prevalence of Pesticide Use

Definition of Pesticides

• Pesticides - Definition
• Definition of Public Health Pesticides

Prevalence of Use

• Feasibility of Prescription Pesticide Use In the United States - Suggests a possible method of preventing overuse of pesticides by having experts involved in their use.
• USGS Pesticide National Synthesis Project - Annual Use Maps - Maps of various kinds of pesticides and their use in the United States.
• USGS Pesticide National Synthesis Project - Crop & Compound - The use of pestides listed for various crops
• NCFAP Pesticide Use in Various Commodities for 1991-94
• Rising Toxic Tide - Pesticide Use in California: 1991-1995
• Virginia Pesticide Use Surveys - Well organized statistics on the use of pesticides in Virginia in the early 1990's.
• Mexican Use of Unregulated Pesticides
• Pesticide Use In Wyoming on Major Crops and Livestock in 1994
• International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides

Classification of Pesticides

• General Classification of Pesticides - herbicides
• International hazard classification systems for crop protection products
• Pesticide safety and other pesticide information: Names, classification and toxicity of pesticides
• Classification of Pesticides - Malaysia

Occupational Poisoning

• Occupational Pesticide Poisoning in Apple Orchards
• An Analysis of Serious Occupational Diseases and Poisoning to Agricultural Workers in Florida During a Three-Year Period, 1987-1989
• Pesticides User Guide: How Pesticides Affect Humans

Harvest Loss

FIFRA, Pesticide Registration & Re-registration

• Pesticide Regulations
1. Toxicity testing requirements
2. Failure of the re-registration requirements
3. How tolerances are established

Toxicity of major pesticide classes

1. Organochlorine insecticides
2. Organophosphate & Carbamate insecticides
3. Pyrethroid insecticides

DDT and the Nobel Prize

Natural versus synthetic pesticides