TY  - CHAP
AU  - Marcela Varona Uribe
AU  - Sonia Mireya Díaz
AU  - Andrés Monroy
AU  - Edwin Barbosa
AU  - Martha Isabel Páez
AU  - René A. Castro
ED  - R.P. Soundararajan
Y1  - 2012-08-01
PY  - 2012
T1  - Exposure to Pesticides in Tomato Crop Farmers in Merced, Colombia: Effects on Health and the Environment
N2  - Growing population in the world demands increase in the food production and intense health care systems. Use of chemical pesticides is imperative for the management insects in agricultural and disease transmission, weeds and harmful microbes. Monitoring and estimating pesticide residue in crop plants, food, soil, water and other ecosystem has become significant in the recent concern on environment and ecosystem. The book comprises of new innovative trends to detect pesticide residue in crop plants, animal origin food and fishes. Different advanced extraction techniques of sample preparation for residue analysis are elaborately described. Apart from residue assays, metabolism and degradation of pesticide compounds fenamophos, chlorpyrifos, pirimiphos, heptachlor and organic pesticides are also documented.  This book volume is of twelve chapters contributed by eminent scientists from eleven countries.
BT  - Pesticides
SP  - Ch. 1
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/48640
DO  - 10.5772/48640
SN  - 
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-19
ER  -