Before Silent Spring : : Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America / / James C. Whorton.
Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton's history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the intro...
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Whorton, James C., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Before Silent Spring : Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America / James C. Whorton. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015] ©1975 1 online resource (306 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Legacy Library ; 1669 Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part One. Recognition -- 1. The Insect Emergency -- 2. The Lingering Dram -- 3. "Spray, O Spray" -- Part Two. Regulation -- 4. Regulatory Prelude -- 5. Regulatory Perplexities -- 6. Regulatory Publicity -- 7. "No Longer a Hazard" -- Epilogue -- Bibliographic Notes -- Index -- Backmatter restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton's history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the introduction of chemical pesticides in the 1860s.The book examines the period before the publication of Rachel Carson's famous Silent Spring, tracing the origins of the residue problem and exploring the complicated network of interest groups that formed around the issue. The author shows how economic necessities, technological limitations, and pressures on regulatory agencies have brought us to "our present dilemma of seemingly having to poison our food in order to protect it." In Part I, the agricultural and medical literature of the past century is used to analyze the emergence by 1920 of a public health danger of serious proportions. Part II draws heavily on the unpublished records of the Food and Drug Administration to document how the ineffective handling of this danger established precedents for present pesticide abuses.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Food adulteration and inspection United States History. Food contamination. Pesticide residues in food United States. Pesticides Toxicology. SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 9783110426847 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package Science 9783110413595 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691618296 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400871803 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400871803 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400871803.jpg |
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