| Synopsis: |
That residues of pestieide and other "foreign" chemieals in foodstuffs are of eoneern to everyone everywhere is amply attested by the reeeption aeeorded previous volumes of "Residue Reviews" and by the gratifying enthusiasm, sineerity, and efforts shown by all the individuals from whom manuseripts have been solieited. Despite much propaganda to the eontrary, there ean never be any serious question that pest-eontrol chemieals and food- additive chemieals are essential to adequate food produetion, manufaeture, marketing, and storage, yet without eontinuing surveillanee and intelligent eontrol some of those that persist in our foodstuffs eould at times eoneeivably endanger the publie health. Ensuring safety-in-use of these many chemieals is adynamie challenge, for established ones are eontinually being displaeed by newly developed ones more aeeeptable to food technologists, pharma- eologists, toxieologists, and changing pest-eontrol requirements in progressive food-produeing eeonomies.These matters are also of genuine eoneern to inereasing numbers of governmental ageneies and legislative bodies around the world, for some of these chemieals have resulted in a few mishaps from improper use. Adequate safety-in-use evaluations of any of these chemie als persisting into our food- stuffs are not simple matters, and they ineorporate the eonsidered judgments of many individuals highly trained in a variety of eomplex biologieal, chemieal, food technologieal, medieal, pharmaeologieal, and toxieologieal diseiplines. |