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1995 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Long-term Fate of Pesticides in Soil
Author : G. Kuhnt
Published in: Biogeodynamics of Pollutants in Soils and Sediments
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The history of pesticide production and application covers more than one century. Before the Second World War, most of the pesticides were based upon the extremely toxic effects of some heavy metals such as lead, arsenic, mercury, or natural substances like pyrethrum or nicotine. Due to their well-known toxicity, however, they were only used in comparably low quantities for special purposes (cf. Ruhnau et al. 1991).