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Chemicals for many years have been an important means of controlling pests afflicting man, his animals, and food crops. Informed opinion is a consensus that with the growing world food crisis, chemicals for pest control will continue to be vital in production of food. This does not minimize other non-chemical approaches, or integrated pest control approaches, but rather recognize that pesticides remain in many instances our sole weapon of defense.
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Freed, V.H., Hague, R. (1975). Environmental Dynamics of Pesticides: An Overview. In: Haque, R., Freed, V.H. (eds) Environmental Dynamics of Pesticides. Environmental Science Research, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2862-9_1
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