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    Pesticides are substance or mixture of substance which differ in their physical, chemical and identical properties from one to other. Hence, they are classified based on these properties. Some pesticides are also categorized into various classes depending on the needs. Presently, three most popular classifications of pesticides which are widely used is classification based on the mode of entry, pesticide function and the pest organism they kill, the chemical composition of the pesticide. Based on toxicity of pesticides, WHO classified them into four classes: extremely dangerous, highly dangerous, moderately dangerous and slightly dangerous.
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    The organic phosphorus pesticides and organochlorine pesticides are two major types of pesticide residues.This paper studies on the toxicological effect and the mechanism of pesticide residues to the human health,and provides some suggestions of prevention and control of pesticide residues.
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    A questionnaire survey was conducted to 378 enterprises engaged in biologically derived pesticides, such as microbial pesticides, botanical pesticides, bio-chemical pesticides, natural enemy and agricultural antibiotics pesticides. There were 112 registered biologically derived active ingredients(AIs), including 30 microbial pesticides, 29 botanical pesticides, 26 bio-chemical pesticides, 2 natural enemies, and 25 agricultural antibiotics(not including abamectin), and accounting for 17% of total number of registered pesticide AIs. In 2012, the production of biological derived pesticides was about 2.9×105 tons(including mixtures products with chemical pesticides), accounting for about 8% of the total output of pesticides. Overall, the quota of biologically derived pesticides in the whole pesticide industry is very low, and the development levels of different varieties of biologically derived pesticides and different manufacturers differ greatly. Several factors, such as properties, registration policy and the costs of pest control have restricted the development of biologically derived pesticides.
    Abamectin
    Biopesticide
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    Pesticides are considered a necessary evil today. The use of pesticides has progressively increased over the last few decades. Prior to World War II, a few inorganic pesticides were used on a negligible scale. The use of synthetic chemicals as pesticides started with the invention of DDT (dichloro diphenyl trichloroethane). Since then, the use of pesticides has grown enormously both in terms of the number of pesticides and the volume of the use of pesticides. The use of synthetic pesticides supports a large number of industries and involves business worth billions of dollars.
    Introduction. The Pesticides Dilemma. The Role and Use of Pesticides in Health. The Role and Use of Pesticides in Agriculture. The Role and Use of Pesticides in the Forest and on Rights-of-Way. The Role of Pesticides for the Homeowner. Testing Procedures in Pesticide Development. Fungicides and Their Uses. Herbicides and Their Uses. Insecticides and Their Uses. Rodenticides and Their Uses. Piscicides and Their Uses. Avicides and Their Uses. Pesticides in Soil. Pesticides in Water. Pesticides in Air. Pesticides in Food. Pesticides and Birds. Pesticides and Mammals. Pesticides in the Biosphere. Pesticide Legislation. Epilogue. References. Index.
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    One hundred and one pesticides listed as “Complementary Items for Setting the Targets for Water Quality Management in Japan” were divided into 16 groups on the basis of their structures. The degradation of 96 pesticides and 5 oxidation by-products in chlorination was studied to determine the potential of the purification process. Pesticides containing sulfur (S) were easily degraded; for 38 pesticides out of 46 examined pesticides, only 50 % or less of their original concentration remained after 4 hours. On the other hand, pesticides without S were hardly degraded; for 45 pesticides out of 50 examined pesticides, more than 50 % of their original concentration remained even after 24 hours. Thus, the potential for degradation of the pesticides by chlorination can be approximated by the presence or absence of S in their chemical formulae. Oxons (P=O), which are oxidation by-products of organophosphate pesticides containing P=S, were hardly degraded. Therefore, oxons may remain in chlorinated water for a long time.
    Degradation
    Pesticide degradation
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    Pesticides are widely used in producing food to control pests such as insects, rodents, weeds, bacteria, mold and fungus. Pesticides-food contamination is a global food safety problem. The world used pesticides by 6 billion pound annually. The extensive use of pesticides causes of disturbance in natural balance. Due to the environmental balance disturbance, pesticides are playing an important role in plant pests suppression. The vegetables and fruits are exposed to many and many pesticides from different pesticides classes. These pesticides have side effects on plant, animals and human. The main problem now is how to grow plants without using of pesticides? Now it is impossible to prevent using of pesticides. But you can reduce these pesticides. Also, you can use alternative for these pesticides such as plant extracts, organic farming or biopesticidees. Also there are many ways to reduce the pesticides residues in vegetables and fruits such as washing of vegetables and fruits, draying, peeling and boiling. This work focused on pesticides-food contamination causes and solutions
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    The use of pesticides is inevitable to control the pests in different crops, fruits and vegetable plants. It is increasing day by day in Pakistan. The persistent use of pesticides leaves behind toxic residues on food crops. These pesticides upon ingestion exert adverse effects on human health, in addition to disturbing ecosystem. The organochlorine, organophosphorus, carbamates and pyrethroid pesticides have been detected in samples of fruits and vegetables collected from various locations of the world especially in Indo-Pakistan. Most of the samples contained toxic residues exceeding maximum residues limits. Experiments have been carried out to determine the reduction in pesticide residues due to various processing techniques like washing, peeling, frying, freezing and cooking of fruits and vegetables. Likewise treatment of food crops with acidic or alkaline solution also minimized the pesticide residues. This paper reviews the literature published upto the year 2009 focusing on the injurious effects of pesticides and their degradation by processing and chemical treatment. In this literature, it is suggested that different processing operations can be effectively applied on fruits and vegetables to minimize the risk of pesticides on human health.
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    Food contaminant
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    The twenty-first century is an educated agricultural time.This paper begins with analyzing the distinguishing features of educated agriculture and its requirements of the high agricultural universities and colleges,and then sums up the experiences of the services of ShanXi Agricultural University to the educated agriculture.Moreover,combining the reality of Shanxi,the paper suggests that the educated agriculture should be research projects in these fields of breeding animals and plants,drying farming as water-saving,biological engineering,ecological environments,agriculture of facilities and so on,and proposes five ways of doing the job well.
    Agricultural Education
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