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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. The book

Before Silent Spring

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    Publisher: Princeton University Press
    Publication Date: 2/16/2015 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780691618296, 978-0691618296
    ISBN10: 0691618291

    Number of Pages: 306

    Non Fiction , Mathematics & Science , Education

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    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. The book

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