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CISDOC database
| Document ID (ISN) | 31692 |
| CIS number |
79-1127 |
| Year |
1979 |
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| Title |
Safe use of pesticides. |
| Original title |
Sécurité d'emploi des pesticides. [in French] |
| Bibliographic information |
Technical Report Series No.634, World Health Organization, Genève, Switzerland, 1979. 44p. Illus. 19 ref. Price: SF.8.00. |
| Abstract |
Third report of the WHO Expert Committee on Vector Biology and Control (Geneva, 3-9 Oct. 1978). An introduction (emphasising that although progress has been made in genetic and other means of controlling disease vectors and agricultural pests, the use of chemical pesticides remains indispensable at present) is followed by sections devoted to: needs of developing countries regarding safe use of pesticides; factors influencing the toxicity of pesticides; review of new data on pesticides for public health use (organophosphorus compounds and carbamates, pyrethroids); precautionary measures and the monitoring of exposure; other aspects of the safe use of pesticides including education and training (field surveys of pesticide exposure, treatment of insecticide poisoning, expertise in toxicology, development of WHO recommended classification of pesticides by hazard, assistance in poisoning outbreaks, information and training); recommendations for national authorities, for WHO, and for future research. Annexes: chemical structure of some new pyrethroids; Treatment of poisoning due to organophosphorus, carbamate, and organochlorine insecticides; sampling methods in poisoning outbreaks. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
WHO; pesticides; crop protection; toxicology; insecticides |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
poisoning; malathion; chlorphoxim; report; organophosphorus compounds; landrin; decamethrin; permethrin; carbamates; limitation of exposure; health services; medical supervision; exposure tests; medical treatment; metathion; developing countries; safety and health training; temephos; pirimiphos methyl; pyrethrins |
| Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
| Subject(s) |
Agriculture, fishing, animal husbandry
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Agricultural chemicals
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