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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Continuation of Residue Reviews

  • 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 communi­ties over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abiotic and biotic envi­ronments
  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Polybrominated Biphenyl and Diphenylether Flame Retardants: Analysis, Toxicity, and Environmental Occurrence

    • A. M. C. M. Pijnenburg, J. W. Everts, J. de Boer, J. P. Boon
    Pages 1-26
  3. Pesticide Residues in Olive Oil

    • Chaido Lentza-Rizos, Elizabeth J. Avramides
    Pages 111-134
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 151-157

About this book

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology provides detailed review articles concerned with aspects of chemical contaminants, including pesticides, in the total environment with toxicological considerations and consequences. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

    George W. Ware

About the editors

George W. Ware was Professor Emeritus of Entomology and Associate Dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Arizona. He was an Author of eight books and more than 150 scientific articles on pesticide chemistry and toxicology, pesticide application drift, pesticide residues, and radiation biology.





​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.

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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