Organochlorine Pesticides in Fruits and Vegetables

About this book

Intended for use in the laboratory portion of an introductory environmental chemistry or general chemistry course, this module also includes a detailed Instructor's Manual.

Contents

Organochlorine pesticides; solubilities of organic compounds; fundamentals of organic extraction; supercritical fluid extraction; gas chromatography as a tool for the analysis of organic compounds; risk assessment and human health; pesticide regulation and tolerance levels; the great debate. Appendices: tolerance; pesticide residue survey of produce from 1989 to 1991.

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Biography

SUSAN E. KEGLEY is a Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley and has taught environmental chemistry for eight years LAURA J. WISE, University of California, San Francisco