That residues of pesticide and other "foreign" chemicals in food stuffs are of concern to everyone everywhere is amply attested by the reception accorded previous volumes of "Residue Reviews" and by the gratifying enthusiasm, sincerity, and efforts shown by all the in dividuals from whom manuscripts have been solicited. Despite much propaganda to the contrary, there can never be any serious question that pest-control chemicals and food-additive chemicals are essential to adequate food production, manufacture, marketing, and storage, yet without continuing surveillance and intelligent control some of those that persist in our foodstuffs could at times conceivably endanger the public health. Ensuring safety-in-use of these many chemicals is a dynamic challenge, for established ones are continually being dis placed by newly developed ones more acceptable to food technologists, pharmacologists, taxicologists, and changing pest-control requirements in progressive food-producing economies. These matters are of genuine concern to increasing numbers of governmental agencies and legislative bodies around the world, for some of these chemicals have resulted in a few mishaps from improper use. Adequate safety-in-use evaluations of any of these chemicals per sisting into our foodstuffs are not simple matters, and they incorporate the considered judgments of many individuals highly trained in a variety of complex biological, chemical, food technological, medical, pharmacological, and toxicological disciplines.

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Book Title: Residue Reviews/Rückstandsberichte
Editors: Francis A. Gunther
Series Title: Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8458-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1969
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-8458-2Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0179-5953
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6554
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 169
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Applied Ecology, Life Sciences, general, Biomedicine general

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Distribution of pesticides in immiscible binary solvent systems for cleanup and identification and its application in the extraction of pesticides from milk

Factors affecting the extraction of organochlorine insecticides from soil

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