RT Book, Section
A1 Costa, Lucio G.
A2 Klaassen, Curtis D.
SR Print(0)
ID 1158501524
T1 Toxic Effects of Pesticides
T2 Casarett & Doull’s Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, 9th edition
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259863745
LK accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1158501524
RD 2022/01/20
AB Pesticides  can  be  defined  as  any  substance  or  mixture  of  substances  intended  for  preventing,  destroying,  repelling,  or  mitigating  pests.  Pests  can  be  insects,  rodents,  weeds,  and  a  host  of  other  unwanted  organisms  (Ecobichon,  2001a).  Thus,  pesticides  occupy  a  rather  unique  position  among  the  many  chemicals  that  we  encounter  daily,  in  that  they  are  deliberately  added  to  the  environment  for  the  purpose  of  killing  or  injuring  some  form  of  life.  Ideally,  their  injurious  action  would  be  highly  specific  for  undesirable  targets;  in  reality,  however,  many  pesticides  are  not  highly  selective,  and  are  often  toxic  to  many  nontarget  species,  including  humans.  Thus,  the  use  of  pesticides  must  minimize  the  possibility  of  exposure  of  nontarget  organisms  to  injurious  quantities  of  these  chemicals  (Murphy,  1986).