Overview
- Provides concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy, and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications
- Highlights the concerns of scientific, industrial, and governmental communiÂties over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abiotic and biotic enviÂronments
- Detailed reviews concerned with aspects of pesticides in the total environment with toxicological considerations and consequences.
Part of the book series: Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (RECT, volume 141)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
- Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
- contaminants
- environment
- environmental charges
- environmental contamination
- environmental contamination and toxicology
- environmental occurrence
- pesticide
- pesticide policies
- pesticide residues
- polybrominated biphenyl
- residue
- residues
- toxicity
- toxicology
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
​Francis Alan Gunther served the University of California for the whole of his professional life. He spent a career of 44 years as a leader in the development of analytical methods for pesticide residues and in the determination of the physical and chemical fates of pesticides and related chemical residues in the environment. While so doing, he developed anddirected what was indeed a national and international center of research on these subjects.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Book Subtitle: Continuation of Residue Reviews
Editors: George W. Ware, Francis A. Gunther
Series Title: Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2530-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1995
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-94453-1Due: 24 February 1995
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7570-1Published: 27 September 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-2530-0Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0179-5953
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6554
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 157
Topics: Biochemistry, general, Pollution, general, Environmental Chemistry, Applied Ecology, Ecotoxicology, Ecology