Providing information on more than 500 pesticides and 100 agricultural chemicals, this informative handbook outlines methods for selecting proper respiratory protection, chemical protective clothing, and chemical storage. The text describes proper response procedures for fires, …
Environmental and consumer activists have for a long time blamed pesticides, fertilizers and other aspects of intensive farming for causing environmental degradation and human disease. Yet, as the authors in this book show, intensive farming has enabled growth in food production…
Following the successful and proven concept used in "Bioactive Heterocyclic Compound Classes" by the same editors, this book is the first to present approved pharmaceutical and agrochemical compounds classified by their carboxylic acid functionality in one handy volume. Each of …
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This book is divided into the following chapters: basic concepts of decision-making in pest management; basic concepts of sampling for pest management; classifying pest density; distributions; sequential sampling for classification; enhancing and evaluating the usefulness of sam…
"The development of efficient and straightforward methods to obtain chiral compounds is an important and challenging research area in modern synthetic organic chemistry. Especially asymmetric hydrogenation reactions have been investigated extensively in the past decades. This re…
"A scientific look at how the chemicals used in today's food production were developed, evaluated, and came to be in wide-spread use. From fertilizers to pest management, antibiotics to DNA, chemicals have transformed the way our food is grown, protected, and processed. Agricult…
A scientific look at how the chemicals used in today's food production were developed, evaluated, and came to be in wide-spread use. From fertilizers to pest management, antibiotics to DNA, chemicals have transformed the way our food is grown, protected, and processed. Agricultu…
