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Evaluating the Hazards of Pesticides

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Abstract

Pesticides provide important benefits in agriculture and public health [1,2] and the balance of evidence shows that these chemicals are not producing an epidemic of poisoning[1,3–6]. However, some aspects of present hazard evaluation procedures can be criticized.

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  2. Department of Biochemistry, University of Surrey, Guildford, England

    D. V. Parke

  3. Girton College, Cambridge, England

    J. Marks (Director of Medical Studies) (Director of Medical Studies)

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Turnbull, G.J. (1986). Evaluating the Hazards of Pesticides. In: Worden, A.N., Parke, D.V., Marks, J. (eds) The Future of Predictive Safety Evaluation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4139-7_10

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