Environmental impact of pesticides in Egypt

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 196, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-51

  Mansour, Sameeh A ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE RESIDUE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EGYPT; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MALE; POISON CENTER; POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MALE; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; PESTICIDES; POISON CONTROL CENTERS; POISONING;

EID: 58049142630     PISSN: 01795953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-78444-1_1     Document Type: Article

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