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Pesticides: Minor Uses/Major Issues

Task Force Chairs
Retired, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research Service
University of California Agricultural Extension
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research Service
University of Idaho Research and Extension Center
Technology Development Center, Davis, California
Monsanto Agricultural Company
Rutgers University, Office of IR-4
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service
American Dehydrated Onion and Garlic Association
J. R. Brooks and Son
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Pesticide Impact Assessment Program
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service
University of Florida, assigned to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research Service
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Abstract
This report recommends implementation of an innovative minor use pesticides strategy before 1997, so as to assure the continued availability to U.S. consumers of high quality, reasonably priced minor crops.
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