Before Silent Spring Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America |
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| Author:
| Whorton, James C. |
| Series title: | Princeton Legacy Library |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-61829-6 |
| Publication Date: | May 2015 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $97.99 |
Book Description:
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Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton's history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the introduction of chemical pesticides in the 1860s. The book
Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton's history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the introduction of chemical pesticides in the 1860s. The book