Research Product

This report is a compilation of papers, presented over a 3-day period, on the subject of the substitute chemicals program. Papers deal with such related areas as: purpose, organization, and operation of the substitute chemicals program; initial scientific, mini-economic, biosphere, and socioeconomic reviews; progress in EPA research - new directions and overview; worldwide pesticide research and perspectives; WHO in pesticide research; as well as Food and Agriculture Organization; U.S. participation in Codex; prerequisite conditions for determination and efficient realization of substitute chemicals program in some European and developing countries; EPA's pesticide monitoring program; research in USDI; nonagricultural use pesticides; future of pesticide research; overview of ecological effects; terrestrial effects, and marine life and fresh water effects; preliminary systems analysis as a tool for research program design; intra- and extramural health effects research and long-range health effects.