Chapter 21. The toxicity and hazards of pesticides. Pages 179-196.

Keywords: human deaths from accidental pesticide poisoning, accidental ingestion of pesticides by children, categories of substances most frequently ingested by children, effects of pesticides on humans, acute oral LD50s for rats and dermal LD50s for rabbits for some organophosphorous, organochlorine,

carbamate, botanical, pyrethroid, and formamidine insecticides, estimation of toxicity to humans, pesticide toxicity classes, EPA labeling toxicity categories, toxicity and labeling, signal words on label, examples of toxicity classes, field reentry safety intervals, restricted-use pesticides and abridged criteria for classification, cancelations and reduced-use patterns for pesticides, first aid for pesticide poisoning, first aid in the event of chemical poisoning, if you are alone with the victim, if another person is with you and the victim, poison on skin, in eye, inhaled, swallowed, chemical burns of skin,