Pesticides manufacturing industry

Atkins, P.R. The Pesticide Manufacturing Industry - Current Waste Treatment and Disposal Practices, USEPA Project No. 12020 EYE, 1972. 

OPs cause adverse effects in poisoned animals and humans, which are based on the dose and durabon of exposure. Examples of the effects include nausea, coma, convulsions, respiratory failure, and death. Workers in pesticide manufacturing industries and farming industries may contract OP poisoning via skin absorption. The inhibition of AChE results in accumulahon of ACh, causing the wide variety of Henry s symptoms. 

The Clean Water Act lays the basis for technology based effluent standards of conventional pollutants such as Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), Total Suspended Solids (TSS), fecal coliform, oil and grease, pH, toxic pollutants, and non-conventional pollutants such as active pesticides, ingredients used in the pesticide manufacturing industry, etc. 

Industrial Agents Chemicals manufactured for industrial purposes rather than to specifically kill or maim human beings. Hydrogen cyanide, cyanogen chloride, phosgene, and chloropicrin are industrial chemicals that can be military agents as well AC, CK, CG, and PS. Many herbicides and pesticides are industrial chemicals that also can be chemical agents. 

Effluent limitations reflecting BPT currently available for the pesticide manufacturing and formulating industrial category were promulgated by USEPA on April 25, 1978 (43 Federal... 

Aerosols of particles larger than 2 pm also cause damage to the upper respiratory system. Arsenic oxides, sulfides, and chlorides are used in a variety of industries, such as manufacturing of colored glass, ceramics, semiconductors, and fireworks and in hide processing. However, upper respiratory exposure to these compounds is most likely to occur in ore smelting industries and in pesticide manufacturing. 

Masten et al. (1996) investigated the oxidation of chlorinated benzenes such as 1,2-dichlorobenzene (1,2-DCB), 1,3,5-trichlorobenzene (1,3,5-TCB), and pentanoic acid (PA). TCB is often generated as a by-product of pesticide manufacturing, while DCB is commonly manufactured as an insecticide or a fumigant for industrial odor control. Due to their resistance to biological treatments, PA is usually nonreactive with ozone but can react with hydroxyl radicals (Masten et al., 1996). 

Dioxin is formed as a by-product of many industrial processes involving chlorine such as waste incineration, chemical and pesticide manufacturing, and pulp and paper bleaching. Dioxin was the primary toxic component in Agent... 

Aliphatic and alicyclic amines form one of the most extensively used categories of compounds in a variety of manufacturing industries. These compounds are first-phase materials for chemical synthesis, intermediates, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, soil sterilizers, and several kinds of solvents, rubber products, rocket propellants, and plastic monomers. This chapter discusses the safety and toxicity of selected compounds handled by workers in different industries. More information and extensive literature are available in several study reports on members of this important group.31,32... 

Butylamines have played a versatile role in the manufacturing industries of different day-to-day products. These include industries associated with textiles, leather tanning, pesticides, antioxidants and pharmaceuticals, photography, plastics, dyestuffs, and many other emulsifying agents. 

One of the worst industrial accidents occurred in Bhopal, India, on December 2 and 3, 1984. It was due to the leakage of methyl isocyanate (MIC) released from the Union Carbide pesticide manufacturing plant. More than 3,000 people who resided in areas adjacent to the manufacturing plant died within a few hours after exposure to MIC. Death was attributed to severe pulmonary toxicity, followed by... 

Industrial wastes from pesticide and other manufacturing processes merit particular attention. While we know a great deal about the fates of many registered pesticide chemicals, we know very little about the natures and fates of the many products in the immense tonnages of wastes in the dumps of pesticide manufacturers. These compounds will slowly leach from already existing dumps into our waters and soils for hundreds of years. 

Insecticide Standards. Analytical standards were obtained from City Chemical Corp., Panta Industries, Inc., and a number of pesticide manufacturers. The purity of the insecticides from the various sources was compared by infrared and gas chromatographic analysis. The concentration of the insecticide emulsions was determined by electron capture gas chromatography by using analytical standards. 

Soils and waters affected by emissions from smelters, power plants. Soils and waters affected by mining wastes and by-products. Some playa lake sediments. Soils and dusts derived from naturally As-enriched rocks and sediments. Waters that have leached As from As-rich rocks, soils, and sediments. Pesticides, other industrial chemicals. By-products or wastes from chemical manufacturing or other industrial processes. 

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