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Health Effects of Pesticides
Authors: Srivastava A. K., Kesavachandran C.
Language: EnglishSubjects for Health Effects of Pesticides:
Keywords
Pesticide Exposure Assessment; Food productivity; Industrial Toxicology Research Centre; Plant genetic engineering; ATSDR 1989b; The Energy and Resources Institute; Lethal Concentration; ATSDR 1989a; Spinal Cord; Horse Gram; EPA 2012b; EPA 2012a; USEPA 1989b; Plant Protection Practices; Pesticide Manufacturing Industry; TMDI; Slightly Toxic; Serum DDE; Insecticides Act; Passive Dosimetry; Acetylthiocholine Iodide; Acute Pesticide Poisoning; Food Adulteration Act; Acute Toxicity Test; Pesticide Exposure
Publication date: 06-2024
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
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Add to cart the book of Srivastava A. K., Kesavachandran C.Publication date: 01-2019
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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Health Effects of Pesticides covers various aspects of the use of pesticides, their behaviour, degradation, and impacts on the agrarian environment. It focuses on pesticide poisoning incidents and farm practices in developing countries. The health impacts of pesticides, including neurological, respiratory, and dermal effects, are examined. Other repercussions caused as a result of pesticides, including reproductive abnormalities and cancer, are comprehensively discussed. Effects of pesticides on general health and agrarian health surveys have been touched upon.
Please note: This volume is Co-published with The Energy and Resources Institute Press, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Anup Kumar Srivastava, MBBS, MD, FRIPHH, has been actively involved in research for the past 35 years, and has worked at CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicological Research (CSIR-IITR), Lucknow. Dr Srivastava also served as Director of National Institute Miners’ Health, Nagpur and was the first specialist of Industrial Health appointed in the coal industry at Western Coalfields Limited, Nagpur.
C Kesavachandran, PhD, is Senior Scientist, Epidemiological Section, CSIR-IITR. He received his PhD from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala and is pursuing a research career as a Scientist at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (CSIR-IITR), Lucknow, since 2002.