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The Future Role of Pesticides in US Agriculture
FIGURE 2-4 Registration of safer chemicals. Proportion of pesticide active ingredients that are considered to be safer (biological chemicals and reduced-risk conventional chemicals) than conventional chemical pesticides has steadily increased over the last several years.
