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The evaluations of residues on foodstuffs contained in these monographs were prepared by a joint meeting of an FA0 expert committee and a WHO expert committee on pesticide residues that met in Geneva and produced its report  Pesticide Residues in Food  published as WHO Technical Report Series No. 545 and FA0 Agricultural Studies No. 92 in 1974. Th

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The Great Lakes Entomologist Volume 9 Number 4 - Winter 1976 Number 4 - Winter 1976 Article 15 December 1976 1973 Evaluations of Some Pesticide Residues in Food: The Monographs. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 1975. 491 p. Available from Unipub, Box 433, Murray Hill Station, New York, NY 10016. $15.00. A. W. A. Brown Michigan State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle  Part of the Entomology Commons Recommended Citation Brown, A. W. A. 1976. "1973 Evaluations of Some Pesticide Residues in Food: The Monographs. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 1975. 491 p. Available from Unipub, Box 433, Murray Hill Station, New York, NY 10016. $15.00.," The Great Lakes Entomologist, vol 9 (4) Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol9/iss4/15 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Biology at ValpoScholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Great Lakes Entomologist by an authorized administrator of ValpoScholar. For more information, please contact a ValpoScholar staff member at scholar@valpo.edu. 210 THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST Vol. 9,  No. 4 attempting a comprehensive treatment at the species level. Another factor contributing to its broad usage is the fact that although it is oriented to the Illinois fauna, it is of much broader geographic applicability, and on a species level is of use for most of the eastern United States and Canada. The multifaceted introduction serves as a very good, short introduction to the study of mayflies in general, keeping in mind recent classificatory changes and recent advances in collecting, rearing, and study techniques. Keys to  adult male mayflies are helpful but must be used with caution for areas outside Illinois and, especially, the Midwest. Without prior knowledge it is difficult to  determine how comprehensively any genus is covered, e.g., in some genera, all of the species are treated, while in others, some of the species outside Illinois are not treated. Also, in most cases, descriptions are apparently based only on Illinois material (and type material when studied) with little attention given to variability. To the large number of aquatic biologists who deal with benthic insects and are forever searching for keys to identify species of mayflies in the immature stage, this work will not satisfy their needs in many cases. Little emphasis is given to larvae (there presently remains a dearth of information on this stage), and often it cannot be determined if the larvae are even described for a particular species. Keys to the larvae of species of genera such as Stenonema, Heptagenia, and Baetis are of only limited usefulness and determination may not always be reliable. I can recommend this work to  all students of Nearctic Ephemeroptera; and entomole gists and aquatic biologists in general will find many aspects of it worthwhile, especially until such time that more complete data have been compiled on the larvae a t  the species level. W. P. McCafferty Department of Entomology Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 1973 EVALUATIONS OF SOME PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD: THE MONO- GRAPHS. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 1975. 491 p. Available from Unipub, Box 433, Murray Hill Station, New York, NY 10016. $15.00. The evaluations of residues on foodstuffs contained in these monographs were prepared by a joint meeting of an F A 0  expert committee and a WHO expert committee on pesticide residues that met in Geneva and produced its report "Pesticide Residues in Food" published as WHO Technical Report Series No. 545 and F A 0  Agricultural Studies No. 92 in 1974. The monographs give the relevant data obtained from feeding tests with laboratory animals to make a decision as to the Acceptable Daily Intake of each pesticide, and thence to make recommendations as to the Residue Limits (Tolerances for residual contamination in ppm), from which member states of the UN can decide on their own Tolerance, and state the Pre-Harvest Interval from the last application to ensure that the residue will be below that tolerance. The monographs cover 23 pesticides, of which 8 are fungicides and 2 are used as acaricides; of the 13 insecticides, 3 are organochlorines, 8 are organophosphorus compounds, and 2 are carbamates. Besides the data on mammalian toxicity, they contain information on metabolites of the pesticide, on the dosages used and residues found under field conditions, and on analytical methods The pesticides that are of particular interest to growers in the Great Lakes region are benomyl and captan among the fungicides and lindane, toxaphene, malathion, azinphosmethyl and carbaryl among the insecticides. A. W. A. Brown Department of Entomology Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 1Brown: 1973 Evaluations of Some Pesticide Residues in Food: The MonograpPublished by ValpoScholar, 1976

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The Great Lakes Entomologist 
Volume 9 
Number 4 - Winter 1976 Number 4 - Winter 
1976 
Article 15 
December 1976 
1973 Evaluations of Some Pesticide Residues in Food: The 
Monographs. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United 
Nations, Rome, 1975. 491 p. Available from Unipub, Box 433, 
Murray Hill Station, New York, NY 10016. $15.00. 
A. W. A. Brown 
Michigan State University 
Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle 
 Part of the Entomology Commons 
Recommended Citation 
Brown, A. W. A. 1976. "1973 Evaluations of Some Pesticide Residues in Food: The Monographs. Food and 
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 1975. 491 p. Available from Unipub, Box 433, 
Murray Hill Station, New York, NY 10016. $15.00.," The Great Lakes Entomologist, vol 9 (4) 
Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol9/iss4/15 
This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Biology at ValpoScholar. It has 
been accepted for inclusion in The Great Lakes Entomologist by an authorized administrator of ValpoScholar. For 
more information, please contact a ValpoScholar staff member at scholar@valpo.edu. 
210 THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST Vol. 9,  No. 4 
attempting a comprehensive treatment at the species level. Another factor contributing to 
its broad usage is the fact that although it is oriented to the Illinois fauna, it is of much 
broader geographic applicability, and on a species level is of use for most of the eastern 
United States and Canada. 
The multifaceted introduction serves as a very good, short introduction to the study 
of mayflies in general, keeping in mind recent classificatory changes and recent advances 
in collecting, rearing, and study techniques. Keys to  adult male mayflies are helpful but 
must be used with caution for areas outside Illinois and, especially, the Midwest. Without 
prior knowledge it is difficult to  determine how comprehensively any genus is covered, 
e.g., in some genera, all of the species are treated, while in others, some of the species 
outside Illinois are not treated. Also, in most cases, descriptions are apparently based 
only on Illinois material (and type material when studied) with little attention given to 
variability. To the large number of aquatic biologists who deal with benthic insects and 
are forever searching for keys to identify species of mayflies in the immature stage, this 
work will not satisfy their needs in many cases. Little emphasis is given to larvae (there 
presently remains a dearth of information on this stage), and often it cannot be 
determined if the larvae are even described for a particular species. Keys to the larvae of 
species of genera such as Stenonema, Heptagenia, and Baetis are of only limited 
usefulness and determination may not always be reliable. 
I can recommend this work to  all students of Nearctic Ephemeroptera; and entomole 
gists and aquatic biologists in general will find many aspects of it worthwhile, especially 
until such time that more complete data have been compiled on the larvae a t  the species 
level. 
W. P. McCafferty 
Department of Entomology 
Purdue University 
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 
1973 EVALUATIONS OF SOME PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD: THE MONO- 
GRAPHS. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 1975. 491 
p. Available from Unipub, Box 433, Murray Hill Station, New York, NY 10016. $15.00. 
The evaluations of residues on foodstuffs contained in these monographs were 
prepared by a joint meeting of an F A 0  expert committee and a WHO expert committee 
on pesticide residues that met in Geneva and produced its report "Pesticide Residues in 
Food" published as WHO Technical Report Series No. 545 and F A 0  Agricultural Studies 
No. 92 in 1974. The monographs give the relevant data obtained from feeding tests with 
laboratory animals to make a decision as to the Acceptable Daily Intake of each 
pesticide, and thence to make recommendations as to the Residue Limits (Tolerances for 
residual contamination in ppm), from which member states of the UN can decide on 
their own Tolerance, and state the Pre-Harvest Interval from the last application to ensure 
that the residue will be below that tolerance. 
The monographs cover 23 pesticides, of which 8 are fungicides and 2 are used as 
acaricides; of the 13 insecticides, 3 are organochlorines, 8 are organophosphorus 
compounds, and 2 are carbamates. Besides the data on mammalian toxicity, they contain 
information on metabolites of the pesticide, on the dosages used and residues found 
under field conditions, and on analytical methods The pesticides that are of particular 
interest to growers in the Great Lakes region are benomyl and captan among the 
fungicides and lindane, toxaphene, malathion, azinphosmethyl and carbaryl among the 
insecticides. 
A. W. A. Brown 
Department of Entomology 
Michigan State University 
East Lansing, MI 48824 
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