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Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America
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Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America

James C. Whorton
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Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton’s history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the introduction of chemical pesticides in the 1860s. The book

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Date
19 May 2015
Pages
306
ISBN
9780691618296

Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton’s history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the introduction of chemical pesticides in the 1860s. The book

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Date
19 May 2015
Pages
306
ISBN
9780691618296

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