Safe use of pesticides

Control of substances hazardous to health regulations. Ionizing Radiations Regulations 1999 Control of lead at Work Regulations 1998 MAFF/HSC Code of Practice for the safe use of pesticides on farms and holdings. 

L 9 Safe use of pesticides for non-agricultural purposes - Control of Substances Hazardous to Health... 

In the book The Safe Use of Pesticides While Intensifying Agricultural Production [21], the paragraphs on polychlorpinen in beet fields were lost among data linked to OCP contamination of breast milk in Japan, the USA, and Sweden the dangers to the inhabitants of Italy from herbicide contamination of the Po river the poisoning of the inhabitants of the USA and Canada by watermelon from a plantation treated with pesticides and many other facts. Here is the text on the beet fields ... 

Because the farm enterprise will require more technical service, it is reasonable to assume that our sales representatives will become more technically oriented in order to provide farmers, farm managers, and distributors the technical information required. They will have to be crop specialists because they will be selling crop programs, not just products. Support of these personnel and services will require more sophisticated educational and communication techniques to insure effective and safe use of pesticides. 

There is a requirement to improve standards and regulations for the safe use of pesticides, to introduce modem technologies and techniques for their af lication, and to raise the efficiency of the state sanitary supervision. 

Preventive and educational actions directed towards the whole community (eg, poison prevention campaigns, posters demonstrating the dango of poisonings from chemicals) for specific groups at risk (eg, safe use of pesticides for nu woricers, risks of contact with specific chemicals in the workplace). The methods and techniques employed for the prevention and generating awareness about poisonings should be ad ted to each nation s situation and circumstances. 

ROTS Recommendations on the Safe Use of Pesticides in Ships, Supplement to the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code, International Maritime Organization London 1997... 

The Labeling and Registration Section—This section has responsibility for the proper labeling and safe use of pesticides. Manufacturers of pesticides must present new products with their proposed labels for approval before they are authorized to sell them. 

WHO, 1973. Safe use of pesticides 20th report of WHO expert committee on insecticides. WHO Tech. Rep. Sen 513,1-54. 

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