Basic Guide To Pesticides: Their Characteristics And Hazards

Rachel Carson Counsel Inc.,

Selections of pesticide materials included; sources of information; how to use the guide; the charts, names of pesticides and how to use index of names; classes of pesticides; chief pesticide use; persistence; toxicity effects on mammals; adverse effects on other non-target species - physical properties; varying vulnerability to pesticide poisoning; index of pesticide names; charts of pesticide characteristics, alphabetically by name; toxic characteristics of classes of pesticide ingredients; references; using pesticides; alternatives to pesticides. Appendix: a review of United States federal regulation on pesticides.