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A positive assessment of environmental friendly land use systems is only possible, if the methods are well transferred into practise free of pesticides traditional products... 

H. De Boer, C. Vongsombath, K. Palsson, L. Bjork, and T. G. T. Jaenson, Botanical repellents and pesticides traditionally used against hematophagous invertebrates in Lao People s Democratic Repubhc A comparative study of plants used in 66 villages. Journal of Medical Entomology, 47 400-414, 2010. 

Historically, the discovery of one effective herbicide has led quickly to the preparation and screening of a family of imitative chemicals (3). Herbicide developers have traditionally used combinations of experience, art-based approaches, and intuitive appHcations of classical stmcture—activity relationships to imitate, increase, or make more selective the activity of the parent compound. This trial-and-error process depends on the costs and availabiUties of appropriate starting materials, ease of synthesis of usually inactive intermediates, and alterations of parent compound chemical properties by stepwise addition of substituents that have been effective in the development of other pesticides, eg, halogens or substituted amino groups. The reason a particular imitative compound works is seldom understood, and other pesticidal appHcations are not readily predictable. Novices in this traditional, quite random, process requite several years of training and experience in order to function productively. 

These chemorational techniques have generated great interest in, and high expectations for, the acceleration of development of innovative pesticides. However, many purportedly successful appHcations of QSAR procedures have reHed on the quaHtative insights traditionally associated with art-based pesticide development programs. Retrospective QSAR analyses have, however, been helpful in identifying the best compounds for specific uses (17). Chemorational techniques have also found some appHcations in the development of pesticides from natural product lead compounds, the best known examples being the synthetic pyrethroid insecticides (19) modeled on the plant natural product, pyrethmm. 

Discovery. The traditional approach to new pesticide discovery was to make iatuitive changes ia the substitueats oa a promising primary chemical stmcture. Initially, materials from any source were subjected to screening for biological activity as iasecticides, herbicides, or fungicides. 

LC-GC, therefore, shows promise for forensic science applications, reducing sample handling and preparation steps by essentially using an on-line LC column in place of one or more extraction steps. This is followed by a traditional high resolution GC analysis. The methods described here for pesticides and hormones could be readily adapted to a variety of analyses, especially those involving fatty matrices. Such as tissues, food or blood. 

Pesticide use was not Carson s chosen topic. She preferred to author works that simply fostered a deeper appreciation of nature. A shy and soft-spoken woman, Carson wrote with an Albert Schweitzer-like reverence for life. All was sacred to her. Her style was lyrical, vivid, and romantic, falling mostly within the nature-writing tradition. She gave her creatures anthropomorphic characteristics, set them in dramatic situations, hoping, she said, to make animals in the woods or waters, where they live, as alive to others as they are to me. ... 

Specificity is unsurpassed. Traditionally, MS was performed on very large and expensive high-resolution sector instruments operated by experienced specialists. The introduction of low-resolution (1 amu), low-cost, bench-top mass spectrometers in the early 1980s provided analysts with a robust analytical tool with a more universal range of application. Two types of bench-top mass spectrometers have predominated the quadrupole or mass-selective detector (MSD) and the ion-trap detector (ITD). These instruments do not have to be operated by specialists and can be utilized routinely by residue analysts after limited training. The MSD is normally operated in the SIM mode to increase detection sensitivity, whereas the ITD is more suited to operate in the full-scan mode, as little or no increase in sensitivity is gained by using SIM. Both MSDs and ITDs are widely used in many laboratories for pesticide residue analyses, and the preferred choice of instrument can only be made after assessment of the performance for a particular application. 

The principal limitation in the use of electrophoretic techniques is the lack of availability of suitable detection systems for quantitative analysis and unequivocal identification of pesticide analytes. Traditionally, either ultraviolet/visible (UVA IS) or fluorescence detection techniques have been used. However, as with chromatographic techniques, MS should be the detection system of choice. A brief comparison of the numbers of recent papers on the application of GC/MS and LC/MS with capillary elec-trophoresis/mass spectrometery (CE/MS) demonstrates that interfaces between CE... 

Rat Traditional versus Improved (with fertilisers and pesticides) grown sorghum Improved sorghum contained higher phytate and feeding resulted in lower incorporation of zinc and iron in bones compared with traditional sorghum (Ali and Harland, 1991)... 

Copper compounds are used in agriculture to treat mildew and other plant diseases in the food industry as preservatives, additives, or coloring agents in preservatives of wood, leather, and fabrics in coin manufacture and in water treatment (ATSDR1990 Roncero et al. 1992). The use of copper-containing pesticides is traditional along the Mediterranean Coast, especially the use of Bordeaux mixture, a copper sulfate-based fungicide that has been widely used for more than a century to... 

Non-linear concentration/response relationships are as common in pesticide residue analysis as in analytical chemistry in general. Although linear approximations have traditionally been helpful the complexity of physical phenomena is a prime reason that the limits of usefulness of such an approximation are frequently exceeded. In fact, it should be regarded the rule rather than the exception that calibration problems cannot be handled satisfactorily by linear relationships particularly as the dynamic range of analytical methods is fully exploited. This is true of principles as diverse as atomic absorption spectrometry (U. X-ray fluorescence spectrometry ( ), radio-immunoassays (3), electron capture detection (4) and many more. 

As a result, hardware stores and nurseries-the traditional outlets for lawn care products have lost market share in chemical sales-and formulators have come to rely more heavily on a relatively smaller number of larger-scale customers home improvement and mass market retailers. A handful of North American retailers now account for most formulator pesticide sales, and mass sales and bulk wholesaling reduces formulator industry receipts as a result. Ten North American retailers account for 70% of sales from the Scotts Company, for example. Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Lowes, and the recently troubled Kmart provide 60% of sales, with Home Depot alone accounting for 28%. In fact, in 2003 Home Depot declared Scotts partner of the year. Competition among these retailers is intense, however. If any of these customers should falter, formulators will lose important outlets. 

This emphasis on marketing is also capital-intensive. Formulators now spend millions of dollars on television advertising where traditionally retailers shouldered such expenses. After purchasing a new pesticide line, Scotts Company spent twice as much as its former owner to advertise it. In 1998, with only about half the market share in yard care supplies, the company spent 75% of all the advertising dollars in the sector, and purchased 8 million of television airtime in 2002. ... 

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