Communicating Safe Pesticide Use

Hayes' Handbook of Pesticide Toxicology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1173-1187

  Felsot, Allan S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374367-1.00055-0     Document Type: Chapter

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