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<p><p>Pesticide exposure has long been a cause for concern, and with good reason. Studies have shown that all persons, but especially children, pregnant women, farmers, farmworkers, and the elderly, may experience negative health effects from pesticide exposure. These effects may include acute poisoning, cancer, neurological damage, birth defects, reduced sperm count, suppressed immune systems, and reproductive and developmental harm. </p> <p>This book is a comprehensive examination of pesticide use, pesticide harm, and alternatives to harmful pesticides. Levine highlights the role of farming, because a substantial majority--70 percent or more annually--of pesticides are applied in agricultural uses, thereby making their way into the food chain and into the water supply. More than 20 types of pesticides have been detected in U.S. groundwater, and it is believed that nearly 100 have the potential to invade our municipal water systems. Some level of pesticide contamination has been detected in every state, in both urban and agricultural areas. </p> <p>Outside of agriculture, people are exposed to pesticides primarily in the home. Approximately 90 percent of all households in the nati

Who reads Pesticides : A Toxic Time Bomb in Our Midst?

Author

Marvin J. Levine

Publisher

Praeger; Bloomsbury

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780313082191

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Social Science, Medical