Rational Environment Management of Agrochemicals Risk Assessment, Monitoring, and Remedial Action

by Kennedy, Ivan R.; Solomon, Keith; Gee, Shirley; Crosnan, Angus; Wang, Shuo

• ISBN13: 9780841274204
• ISBN10: 0841274207
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-21
• Publisher: American Chemical Society

Summary

Rational Environmental Management of Agrochemicals will impact the agrochemical industry with its comprehensive survey of rational principles that should be used to select and manage the best agrochemicals while also encouraging the registration of new chemicals with reduced risk of every kind. This book will present papers from one of the most well-attended symposia presented at the PacifiChem Conference with a range of 30 papers presenting the most recent advances in risk assessment and management of organic agrochemicals as it relates to insecticides, herbicides and pharmaceuticals, and the development of rational methods aimed at reducing their overall impacts on trade, human, and environmental health. The concept of Rational Methods is organized under three key themes: Environmental fate and risk assessment, monitoring, and risk management and remediation. This book will contribute nicely to the series of Agrochemical Division sponsored symposium books published in recent years.

Table of Contents

Overview

Achieving rational use of agrochemicals: Environmental chemistry in action

Environmental Fate and Risk Assessment

Simple fugacity models of off-site exposure to agrochemicals

Pesticide risk indicators - Their role in minimising off-site impacts of pesticides on water quality

Development of a decision-making tool to minimise environmental and public health risk of pesticide application

Evaluation of the standard quotient and EcoRR methodologies based on field monitoring from rice fields

Comparative hazard assessment of the substances used for production and control of coca and poppy in Colombia

Geographical extrapolation of pesticide environmental fate data: challenges, risks and opportunites

Rain simulation to estimate pesticide transport in runoff

Monitoring

Progress in the development of biosensors for environmental and human monitoring of agrochemicals

Recombinant antibodies for agrochemicals - Evolutionary optimization

Non-competitive fluorescent immunoassay for the detection of the human urinary biomarker 3-phenoxybenzoic acid with bench top immunosensor Kin

ExATM3000

Optical immunosensor and ELISA for the analysis of pyrethroids and DDT in environmental samples

Immunological determination of the pharmaceutical diclofenac in environmental and biological samples

A comprehensive approach to biological monitoring of pesticides in urine

Application of a cyclodiene-specific ELISAto residue monitoring in agricultural produce and the environment in Vietnam

Monitoring pesticides in the paddy field ecosystem of North-Eastern Thailand for environmental and health risks

Simultaneous measurement of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ab and Cry3B proteins in corn extracts

Risk Management and Remediation

Carbamate pesticides and their biological degradation - Prospects for enzymatic bioremediation

Anti-fungal antibodies in plant pathology

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