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Preface Pesticide science provides human society with the crop and disease vector protectorant products necessary to sustain the food, fiber, and health that it requires in an environmentally safe, sustainable, and affordable manner. This critical task has been made even more daunting by the rising costs of product registration and increasing environmental concerns. Nevertheless, recent technologies and approaches have fundamentally altered how we approach pest management and the control of vectors of communicable diseases. In the forefront of all new agrochemical developments are the criteria of human safety, environmental stewardship, and resistance management. With these goals in mind, approximately 200 pesticide scientists convened the Third Pan-Pacific Conference on Pesticide Science, which was jointly hosted by the Pesticide Science Society of Japan and the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Agrochemicals June 1-4, 2003, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Researchers from 14 countries (Australia, Canada, China, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America) presented 70 invited papers, 68 posters, and 4 panel discussions that dealt with two main topics: New Discoveries in Agrochemicals and Environmental Fate and Safety Management of Agrochemicals. This ACS Symposium Series book deals with the second topic. Twenty-nine invited and peer-reviewed chapters from internationally recognized pesticide experts are divided into six sections: Residue Analysis, Environmental Fate, Environmental Risk Assessment, Metabolism, Resistance and Management, and Advances in Formulation and Application Technology.
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Acknowledgments We thank all the authors for their presentations at the conference and for their contributed chapters. Special thanks go to our keynote speakers (H. Strang and S. Oba), the conference co-chairs (Ν. K. Umetsu and B. Cross), topic organizers (I. H. Yamamoto, K. Solomon, K. Sato, R. Toia, C. Hall, H. Ishii, C. Staetz, T. Ohsubo, and J. Zabkiewicz). In particular, we extend our deepest appreciation to the many expert colleagues who provided helpful and necessary critical reviews. We thank Bob Hauserman and Stacy Vanderwall in acquisitions and Margaret Brown in editing and production of the ACS Books Department for all their help, suggestions, and encouragement. Lastly, we thank the Pesticide Science Society of Japan and the ACS Division of Agrochemicals and their benefactors, contributors, and donors, whosefinancialsupport made this book possible.
J. Marshall Clark Department of Veterinary and Animal Science University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003
Hideo Ohkawa Research Center for Environmental Genomics Kobe University Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501 Japan
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