Pesticides
Subtitle: necessary risk
By: Charlene W. Billings.
Series: Issues in focus; Issues in focus (Hillside, N.J.)
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Hillside, N.J., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Pesticides -- Juvenile literature.; Pesticides -- Environmental aspects -- Juvenile literature.; Pesticide residues in food -- Juvenile literature.; Pesticides -- Government policy -- United States -- Juvenile literature.; Pesticides.
Description: Examines the history and uses of pesticides, their advantages and disadvantages, their regulation, and the idea that they are a necessary risk in order to feed the world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-109) and index.