Citation: Willis GA. 1988. Pesticide residues in food and the environment: What do the levels really mean? Pages 379-390. In: PS Teng, KL Heong (editors), Pesticide Management and Integrated Pest Management in Southeast Asia. Consortium for International Crop Protection, 4321 Hartwick Road, Suite 404, College Park MD 20740, USA, 473 p.

Keywords: pesticide residues in food, yield loss from pests, benefits of pesticides, integrated pest management, chemical control, pesticide human health hazards, cost to develop new pesticides, product safety, acceptable daily intake ADI, theoretical versus actual residue intake, carcinogenic potential, Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues and the Environment, field dissipation studies, water, soil, nontarget organisms, birds, beneficial arthropods, mammalian toxicology, acute toxicity, benefit/risk evaluation