Eighth International Congress of Pesticide Chemistry: Options 2000

About this book

Explores effective and economical techniques to satisfy regulatory demands. It also presents strategies that balance the task of developing effective pest control agents with the public's concerns regarding human health and environmental safety.

Contents

World Food Security up to 2010 and the Global Pesticide Situation; Searching for Clues to Mechanism and New Directions in Synthesis Through SAR and Modeling; 3-Aryl-4-halo-5-substituted Pyrazoles: A New Class of Highly Active Preemergent and Postemergent Herbicides; Chloronicotinyl Insecticides: Development of Imidacloprid; The Synthesis of Fungicidal *b-Methoxyacrylates; Dispersions and Dispersible Systems; Packaging and Application Technology; Controlled Release Systems: Prospects for the Future; Biopesticide Formulations and Their Applications; Movement of Pesticides to Non-Target Areas; Fate of Pesticides in Subsurface Soils and Groundwater; Fate of Herbicides and Organochlorine Insecticides in Lake Waters; Origin and Fate of Pesticides in Air; The Evolution of a Multiresidue Pesticide Method; Isomer- and Enantioselective Residue Analysis of Chlorinated Pesticides Using Chiral High Resolution Gas Chromatography and Various Mass Spectrometric Detection Techniques; Opportunities for Pesticide Residue Analytical Method Development: The Potential for Aqueous Extractions of Pesticide Residues from Fruits and Vegetables; Residues: Biotechnology-Based Methods; Biotechnology in the Production of Disease and Pest Control Agents; Approaches to Identify Genes for Disease Resistance in Plants; Regulatory Aspects in the European Union of Foods Derived from Modern Biotechnology; Metabolism and Transport Related Mechanisms in Organ-Directed Toxicity; Plant Metabolism and the Design of New Selective Herbicides; Advances in Metabolite Identification; Biotransformation in Aquatic Animals: Pesticides Revisited; The Influences of Molecular Mechanisms of Action on Herbicide Design; Influence of Molecular Mechanism of Action on Herbicide Use Rate; Molecular Neurobiology and Insecticide Discovery; Influences of Molecular Mechanisms of Action on Fungicide Design; Catch 22: Mutually Exclusive Strategies for Delaying/Preventing Polygenically vs. Monogenically Inherited Resistances; Managing Resistance to Sterol Demethylation Inhibitors; Status and Future of Synergists in Resistance Management; Conversion of Hazard to Risk: A High-Cost Mistake; New Directions in Pesticide Risk Reduction: Report from North America; New Directions: Report from Europe; Pesticide Registration and Establishment of Maximum Residue Limits in Latin America; Health Risk Assessment: Challenges and Opportunities; Health Risk Assessment: Critical Issues for Improved Decision Making; Ecotoxicological Risk Assessment of Pesticides in Soil; Ecological Risk Assessment of Pesticides: The Role of Field Data

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