TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Pesticides A1 - Moses, Marion A2 - Wallace, Robert B. Y1 - 2017 N1 - T2 - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e AB - Pesticides are among the few toxic substances deliberately added to our environment. They are, by definition, toxic and biocidal, since their purpose is to kill or harm living things. Pesticides are ubiquitous global contaminants found in air, rain, snow, soil, surface and ground water, fog, even the Artctic ice pack. All living creatures tested throughout the world are contaminated with pesticides—birds, fish, wildlife, domestic animals, livestock, and human beings, including newborn babies. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Medical CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141970442 ER -