Interagency Coordination in Environmental Hazards (pesticides): Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Reorganization and International Organizations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964 |
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acres acute agencies agents agricultural chemicals animals application arsenic atropine biological blood California cancer carcinogenic chlordane chlorinated chlorpromazine cholinesterase chronic cides clinical committee compounds containing cooperation crops DECKER Department of Agriculture dieldrin dosage dose Drug Administration effects endrin entomology environment environmental experience experimental exposure Federal feeding field Food and Drug Fungicide Hayes hazard heptachlor herbicides HUEPER human hydrocarbons increased industry ingested injury insecticides insects label laboratory levels lindane liver malathion materials ment methods methoxychlor million moth Nemah occupational disease occur organic phosphate oysters parathion patient percent persistent persons pest control pesti pesticide chemical pesticide residues pesticides phenothiazine plant poisoning population present problem promazine protection prothrombin rats recommendations registration resistance safety samples scientists Senator PEARSON Senator RIBICOFF specific spray studies substances susceptible tests tion tissues tolerance toxic toxicology treatment wildlife workers
Popular passages
Page 890 - (1) any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any insects...
Page 761 - Register file with the Hearing Clerk, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Room 5440, 330 Independence Avenue SW., Washington 25, DC, written objections thereto.
Page 1124 - Although hypotension is rarely a problem, patients with pheochromocytoma, cerebral vascular or renal insufficiency, or a severe cardiac reserve deficiency such as mitral insufficiency appear to be particularly prone to this reaction and should be observed carefully. Supportive measures including intravenous vasopressor drugs should be instituted immediately should severe hypotension occur...
Page 407 - The data derived from such studies should at appropriate times be considered for scientific publication or submission to the Committee on Threshold Limits of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists.
Page 498 - ... that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind? On the other hand, we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favorable variations and the rejection of injurious variations I call Natural Selection.
Page 957 - ... (1) a tolerance for such pesticide chemical in or on the raw agricultural commodity has been prescribed by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under this section and the quantity of such pesticide chemical in or on the raw agricultural commodity is within the limits of the tolerance so prescribed ; or "(2) with respect to use in or on such raw agricultural commodity, the pesticide chemical has been exempted from the requirement of a tolerance by the Secretary under this section.
Page 659 - The National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council be requested to study the technical issues involved in the concepts of "zero tolerance" and "no residue" with the purpose of suggesting legislative changes.
Page 1158 - ... COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS JOHN L. McCLELLAN, Arkansas, Chairman HENRY M. JACKSON. Washington KARL E. MUNDT, South Dakota SAM J. ERVIN, JR., North Carolina CARL T. CURTIS, Nebraska HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, Minnesota JACOB K. JAVITS, New York ERNEST GRUENINO, Alaska JACK MILLER, Iowa EDMUND S.
Page 1131 - If hypotension develops, epinephrine should not be employed, as its action is blocked and partially reversed by perphenazine Phenothiazines may potentiate the action of central nervous system depressants (opiates, analgesics, antihistamines. barbiturates, alcohol) and atropine.
Page 917 - ... Projects Agency projects in our statement. Dr. Jack P. Ruina, Director of ARPA, will follow me to present the ARPA program to you in greater detail. DOD EMERGENCY FUND We again request $150 million for the emergency fund and $150 million in transfer authority on the same basis as in previous years. With your permission, I would like to include for the record a statement very similar to those we have given you for the past several years which provides additional information in support of the need...