Toward pesticidovigilance
Date
22/09/2017Metadata
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Agricultural pesticides are an important component of intensive agriculture and, therefore, of global food production. In the European Union, ∼500 active substances used in pesticides are approved, including insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, and plant growth regulators. When used at industrial scales, pesticides can harm the environment (1), but there is a trade-off between this effect and the need to produce food. Recent uncertainties about the health and environmental effects of glyphosate herbicide and neonicotinoid insecticides underline the need for regulation to be sensitive to this trade-off (2, 3). Better regulation is needed to control how pesticides are used and affect the environment at a landscape scale.
Citation
Milner , A & Boyd , I L 2017 , ' Toward pesticidovigilance ' , Science , vol. 357 , no. 6357 , pp. 1232-1234 . https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan2683
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Science
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0036-8075Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2017, American Association for the Advancement of Science. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan2683
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