The brazilian hazard-based cut-off criteria for pesticide registration: a critical appraisal

Brazil, world’s top consumer of agricultural pesticides, adopts a unique hazard based cut-off approach to pesticide registration. Cut-off criteria for mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, teratogenicity, hormonal disturbances and damage to reproductive organs were introduced by the Pesticide Law enacted...

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Main Author: Francisco José Roma Paumgartten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2012-12-01
Series:Vigilância Sanitária em Debate: Sociedade, Ciência & Tecnologia
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Online Access:https://157.86.10.37/index.php/visaemdebate/article/view/43

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