Before Silent Spring : Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America /

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Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton's history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the intro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whorton, James C., 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1974.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Pesticides > Toxicology.
Pesticide residues in food.
Food contamination.
Food adulteration and inspection.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > General.
Aliments > Contamination.
Pesticides > Residus dans les aliments > États-Unis.
Pesticides > Toxicologie.
Food Contamination
Food adulteration and inspection > United States > History.
Pesticide residues in food > United States.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Recognition; Part 2: Regulation.

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