Report of Committee on Persistent Pesticides, Division of Biology and Agriculture, National Research Council to U.S. Department of Agriculture (1969) / Chapter Skim
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- 2 industry, and industrial waste products, leave persistent residues that add to the contamination in the biosphere. The breakdown of a pesticidal chemical alters the parent molecule, and the alteration often results in a less toxic product.
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- 3 agriculture, whereas, in the developing countries, most of the increase has been due to efforts to control insect vectors of disease.* Moreover, as a result of the greatly reduced incidence of diseases in some developing countries, more food is needed -- to feed those saved from disease.
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- 4 it may be desirable to reexamine the basis of market quality in the interest of reducing pesticide residues in the environment. In home gardening and household uses, pesticides may be applied at excessive rates because the user does not know the proper type of pesticide for best results and because he applies them improperly.
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