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Metabolism of organophosphorus insecticides in animals and plants

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Increasing emphasis is being placed on the research into and development of alternative methods of pest control; however, it is apparent that the use of pesticide chemicals as the major means of protecting plants and animals from many arthropodous pests will continue in the foreseeable future. The probable trend in chemical control will be toward more effective uses of the nonpersistent pesticides that are currently available and the development of new chemicals that have different modes of action and are somewhat selective for a particular pest species. Research with new pesticides and the necessary reevaluation of certain pesticides currently in use will require extensive studies of their complete fates and effects in the environment and in the living organisms that they contact.

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