UK Pesticide Guide

Lainsbury MA The UK Pesticide Guide, BCPC and www.cabi.org, published aimually. Mathews G, Pesticides, Health, Safety and the Environment, Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Williams J B and Morrison J R, Weed Seedlings (colour atlas), Manson Publishing, 2003. Wilson M F, Optimising Pesticide Use, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2003. 

Koike S T, Gladders P and Paulus A O, Vegetable Diseases, Manson Pubhshing, 2007. Lainsbury M A, The UK Pesticide Guide, BCPC and www.cabi.org, published annually. Lucas A, Plant Pathology and Plant Pathogens, Blackwell Science, 1998. 

For up-to-date irrformation on pesticides available, and the regulations and advice on the nse of these chemicals, reference shoitldbe made to the UK Pesticide Guide, pnblished annnally by CABI/BCPC or through the government website or by snbscription to LIAISON nmby FERA. 

A range of fungicide seed dressings are available to control seed-borne diseases such as bunt, fusarium, septoria and loose smut (see the UK Pesticide Guide). There are now some fungicide seed dressings that can also reduce the impact of take-all, e g. silthiofam and fluquinconazole. 

Lainsbury M A, The UK Pesticide Guide, BCPC and www.cabi.org, published annually. 

Cited in Ferrigno S. (2004), Organic Cotton A practical guide to the UK market, Pesticide Action Network UK. 

POEM (1992). UK Predictive Operator Exposure Model (POEM) A Users Guide, Pesticides Safety Directorate, York, UK. 

Phenylmercuric acetate is no longer permitted to be used as a pesticide in the USA. It is, however, included in the FDA Inactive Ingredients Guide (ophthalmic preparations), and is also included in nonparenteral medicines licensed in the UK. In France, a maximum concentration of 0.01% is permitted for use in pharmaceuticals. The use of phenylmercuric acetate in cosmetics is restricted in the UK see Phenylmercuric Nitrate. Included in the Canadian List of Acceptable Non-medicinal Ingredients (however, there must be no other suitable preservatives available). 

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