Abstract
The word ‘pesticide’ has been gradually adopted as a collective term to describe a wide range of chemicals now used to manipulate biological systems in agriculture and other industries. The ‘Review of Present Safety Arrangements for the Use of Toxic Chemicals in Agriculture and Food Storage’ (Cook, 1967) defines a ‘pesticide product’ as including chemicals used ‘to destroy any insect, fungus, bacterium, virus or rodent … or to attract, repel, sterilise, stupefy any pest, or to act as a plant growth regulator, defoliant, desiccant …,’ and so on. For practical purposes, therefore, many chemicals with industrial uses and virtually all agricultural chemicals, with the exception of inorganic fertilisers, come within this definition and can be considered as pesticides. It is in this broad sense that the term is used to discuss pesticides in the atmosphere.
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