Pesticides global development

Sudan Development Association report to Oxfani, December 1993, in Pesticides News 24, June 1994 Obsolete Pesticides , Global Pesticide Campaigner, Vol.2 No.l... 

Animal health is a segment of the life sciences industry at the interface of pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. Global sales were 15 billion in 2005 ( 14.5 billion in 2004, 13.8 billion in 2001, inflation-adjusted). Of the top 10 companies, 9 are business units or spinoffs from pharmaceutical companies (see Table 11.9). The industry is rather concentrated, with the top 10 companies accounting for 75% of total sales. As they do in pharma, US companies dominate in animal health products. Many of the veterinary products in the portfolios had originally been developed for human use or as pesticides. In the pet (respectively companion animal) segment, which comprises cats, dogs, birds, some rodents, reptiles, and horses and represents about 40% of the total market, the association with human health is particularly prominent. 

Scholtz MT, McMillan AC, Slama C, Li YF, Ting N, Davidson K (1997) Pesticides emission modelling. Development of a North American pesticide inventory. Report CGEIC-1997-1, 1-242, Canadian Global Emissions Interpretation Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada... 

This section will primarily focus on fluorinated agrochemicals in advanced stages of development that have been assigned an ISO name since 2001. Some important sources of information are the latest edition of Global Insecticide Directory, Agranova, and The Pesticide Manual. However, in many cases, only limited information is available about the synthesis, biology, mode of action, and structure-activity characteristics of the molecules. 

Ironically, those pressures of the last 13 years or so have generated more information about the environmental toxicology of chlorinated insecticides than we may ever gain about other classes of pesticides or environmental contaminants. As a side-benefit, we now know that some xenobiotics may be transferred into global areas they were never intended to reach and we have developed the methodology needed to measure these low level contaminations It is also doubtful whether the extensive background contamination by PCB would have come to light so quickly without the widespread concern about OC ... 

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