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The subject of pesticides and their influence upon human health has two important aspects: 1) the economic benefits that are gained from using pesticides and their value in controlling epidemics of malaria, plague, and many other diseases of man spread by vectors, and 2) the potential hazards from using pesticides and what is being done to assure their safety. I will confine my remarks to a discussion of the federally sponsored Community Pesticides Studies as they relate to this latter aspect of pesticides and human health.
The research presented in this paper was supported under contract by the Pesticide Community Studies Division, Pesticides Office, Environmental Protection Agency, through theUniversity of Hawaii. Presented in part at the 54th Annual Meeting, Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America, June 1970.
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Klemmer, H.W. (1972). Human health and pesticides—Community Pesticide Studies. In: Gunther, F.A. (eds) Residue Reviews / Rückstands-Berichte. Residue Reviews, vol 41. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8479-7_3
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