Effects of Pesticides on Sports and Commercial Fisheries, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment...Serial No. 91-15 |
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... animals - have been killed by pesticides , sometimes in massive numbers . Rachel Carson , in her eye - opening best - seller Silent Spring ( Houghton Mifflin Co. , 1962 ) , cited dozens of instances . Many such kills are due to outright ...
... animals - have been killed by pesticides , sometimes in massive numbers . Rachel Carson , in her eye - opening best - seller Silent Spring ( Houghton Mifflin Co. , 1962 ) , cited dozens of instances . Many such kills are due to outright ...
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... animal experiments and are set one poison at a time . Then , when it proves to be impossible to keep tolerances within ... animals . When residual pesticides must be used to control or eliminate pests , they shall be used in minimal ...
... animal experiments and are set one poison at a time . Then , when it proves to be impossible to keep tolerances within ... animals . When residual pesticides must be used to control or eliminate pests , they shall be used in minimal ...
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... animals and mosquitoes . Sickness has decreased and large , previously uninhabitable areas have been opened up to human habitation through the use of DDT . In discussing a few of the many aspects of DDT , I shall try not to use techni ...
... animals and mosquitoes . Sickness has decreased and large , previously uninhabitable areas have been opened up to human habitation through the use of DDT . In discussing a few of the many aspects of DDT , I shall try not to use techni ...
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... sure that DDT is present in my fatty tissue , and I am not worried . I prefer this to malaria parasites or encephalitis viruses entering my blood from mosquito bites . BIRDS AND ANIMALS Public interest in wild birds and animals 17.
... sure that DDT is present in my fatty tissue , and I am not worried . I prefer this to malaria parasites or encephalitis viruses entering my blood from mosquito bites . BIRDS AND ANIMALS Public interest in wild birds and animals 17.
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United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce. BIRDS AND ANIMALS Public interest in wild birds and animals has grown widely in recent years , because we see the wilderness and its creatures vanishing as highways and subdivisions take over ...
United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce. BIRDS AND ANIMALS Public interest in wild birds and animals has grown widely in recent years , because we see the wilderness and its creatures vanishing as highways and subdivisions take over ...
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Página 56 - That there shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Labor, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Página 102 - ... is administered by the Food and Drug Administration of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Página 500 - ... alleged pollution, impairment or destruction of the air, water or other natural resources or the public trust therein, shall be determined, and no conduct shall be authorized or approved which does, or is likely to have such effect so long as there is a feasible and prudent alternative consistent with the reasonable requirements of the public health, safety and welfare.
Página 10 - American merchant marine, to be composed of five members of the Senate and five members of the House of Representatives.
Página 5 - ... (13) There is no telling what the future may hold. For instance, recent research indicates the possibility that the insecticide lindane, much of which is used in vaporizers, is far more toxic when exposure is linked with malnutrition, and perhaps should be used with particular care — or not at all — in countries where the diet is low in protein. (33) Other studies indicate similar links for other pesticides. Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., vice president of the Agricultural Development Council,...
Página 492 - Today, the citizen can only protect himself if he has been uniquely harmed, not if everybody is being harmed. The West Michigan Environmental Action Council paid a leading law professor, an expert in conservation law, to research a bill for Michigan to this effect. We would like to give it to you for your attention and we ask that it be included for the record if possible. Senator HART. I would like to have it, and it will be printed in the record at the end of your statement. 3. The sale of DDT...
Página 58 - An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes...
Página 455 - Now that we have it, what are we going to do with it? Are we going to use It wisely to control a certain number of pests for which it is particularly suited, or are we going to use it indiscriminately and possibly damage the life of our planet quite seriously? DDT Is amazingly good — but it is also dangerous.
Página 82 - ... and the reasons therefor. Whenever an application for registration is refused, the applicant, within thirty days after service of notice of such refusal, may file a petition requesting that the matter be referred to an advisory committee or file objections and request a public hearing in accordance with this section.
Página 67 - ... possible impact, both economic and biological, of substituting less persistent pesticides for the more persistent ones, and to establish criteria by which current recommendations may be evaluated with a view to appropriate modification and discontinuation as necessary. We are cooperating closely with the Health, Education, and Welfare Commission on Pesticides and Their Relationship to Environmental Health. Secretary Hardin and Secretary Finch discussed this Commission prior to its establishment,...