![]() | Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America Subjects: Pesticides -- Toxicology; Pesticide residues; Food contamination; Food adulteration and inspection -- United States -- History; Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton's history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the introduction of chemical pesticides in the 1860s. |
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