The health significance of pesticide variability in individual commodity items

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 487-489

  Marrs, T C ^a  

^a Department of Health   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute Toxicity; Health; Organophosphorus; Pesticide Residue

Indexed keywords

CARBAMIC ACID; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; NATURAL PRODUCT; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE RESIDUE; PYRETHRIN; PYRETHROID; ROTENONE;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HEALTH; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VEGETABLE;

EID: 0033855688     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: 14645122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026520300412366     Document Type: Article

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