RT Book, Section
A1 O'Malley, Michael A.
A2 LaDou, Joseph
A2 Harrison, Robert J.
SR Print(0)
ID 1104106513
T1 Pesticides
T2 CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment:  Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 5e
YR 2013
FD 2013
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071808156
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1104106513
RD 2024/04/20
AB Pesticides  include  chemicals  as  well  as  biological  and  physical  agents  used  to  control  a  diverse  array  of  pests.  In  the  United  States,  currently  registered  pesticides  include  1023  active  ingredients  formulated  into  13,400  separate  products  including  adjuvants  and  antimicrobial  compounds.  The  long  list  of  agents  can  best  be  understood  by  grouping  them  to  target  pest  or  use  categories  and  further  subdividing  them  by  chemical  structure  (Table  34–1).  In  the  United  States,  pesticide  use  is  about  1.1  billion  pounds  per  year,  and  estimates  run  as  high  as  5.2  billion  pounds  used  worldwide.  These  estimates  do  not  include  antimicrobial  agents,  which  can  account  for  as  much  as  half  of  all  pesticides  used,  bringing  US  consumption  alone  to  more  than  2  billion  pounds  annually.