Sittig's Handbook Of Pesticides And Agricultural Chemicals

- Provides detailed profiles of pesticides, fertilizers, and other agricultural chemicals used in milk, meat, poultry, eggs, fats, oils, cereals, beans, fruits, nuts, grains, grasses, cotton, herbs, and vegetables for human and animal consumption.

- Profiled agrochemicals include insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, miticides, algaecides, rodenticdes and other pesticides; biocide and fertilizers.

- Profiles contain use type; crop specific residue limits; endocrine disruptor and reproductive toxicity information, as appropriate, among more than 30 fields of important information.

- Every chemical profile contains references and web sites to original and current expanded source information from the U.S. EPA, e.g. Reregistration Eligibility Decisions (RED), U.S. OSHA, the World Health Organization (WHO), and other agencies.

- Includes directories of basic agrochemical manufacturers, national and international professional agrochemical and food-related organizations, and federal, state, and international regulatory agencies with addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers, Email addresses, and web sites.

- Contains indices of EPA product codes; CAS number cross index; and an index to the basic agrochemical manufacturers mentioned in the book.

- Includes a record for acrylamide, a carcinogen formed in cooking and manufactured as a soil conditioning agent.

- Includes a hazard rating for long-term human toxicity provided in parts per billion (ppb) as calculated by the EPA.

- Includes a hazard rating for fish toxicity based on maximum toxicant concentration (MACT) and calculates toxicity threshold for active ingredients expressed in parts per billion (ppb).

Sittig's Handbook of Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals is specifically designed for use by those engaged in the agricultural and food processing industries, both vital to our nation's health and its economy. Agriculture extension agents, food toxicologists and technology engineers and formulators working in every phase of food production from the farm to the fork will find a wealth of material here. It will also be of interest to professionals in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics and personal care products industries who use agricultural products as ingredients. It provides crop, chemical, regulatory, health, and safety information on nearly 800 pesticides, fertilizers, and other agricultural chemicals. These chemicals are organized with unique identifiers so that all who may have contact with or interest in them can find critical information quickly.