Raising PG Kids in an X Rated Society

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Douchebagbookwrittenbyadouchebag.......2007-03-29

My favorite part is that she doesn't admit about being in a band called the Wildcats when she was young.

Just so you know..........2004-11-17

I should specify. I read this book four years ago after I heard about it from Jello Biafra, perhaps the most knowledgable source and victim of Tipper Gore's autocracy. I often feal that I have trouble finding new points to talk about as a political activist and speaker but his are just so shocking and therefore to my taste. If he has tried to point anything out through his spoken word albums and countless speaches (which belive me he has), his highlight would have to have been the energy he put into exposing Tipper's connections with the Religious Right. Phyliph Schalfly of the Eagle Forrum has stated being inspired by Tipper when Tipper spoke at one of the Eagle Forrum's functions ,these functions promoting that woman's place is the home, and tipper has worked with Joe Lieberman who has held six senate commities against rock and rap vs. Tipper's husband Gore's petty two. It is also widely acknowledged that the PMRC (Tipper's action group) sends its information out to people through mail-order christian and televangelist packages. Another reviewer has spoken about the Back in Control center so I don't think I need to continue with that but to sum this up, it is obvious that 'Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society' (gee what a creative title) is not the radical ideology and protection based book it claims to be, but works as a soap box for the Religious Right of America. I cannot tell you, furthermore how shocked I was to find that it may have caused complications to print this review four years ago when I read the book (I'm 16 now) makes me skeptical of the book's influence on major corporations like Amazone and whether they my be taking some of what Tipper says about out of control children to heart. To any concerned parent who would question my sanity after exposure unfiltered sex and violence, I would encourage them to come to my house, let me cook them dinner, discuss the issues Tipper fails to address properly in her book with me, and then invite them to hang out with my racialy and sexualy diverse friends while we engage in one of my favourite activities of the day: Discussing philosophy, poetry (often musical), religion, and American foreign policy over the low hum of music by the Dead Kennedies, Anti-Flag, Rammstein, Alexisonfire, Death by Stereo, Led Zeplin, and Pink Floyd. I would then challenge my guests to portray me and my friends as deranged psychopathic killers as opposed to modern day thinkers of truth and wisdom. Personnaly, I think Hobbes would have been proud.

Doesn't understand that music is ENTERTAINMENT.......2003-11-20

This is just an over protective mom with no creditials writing what she feels. It goes to link a man falling off bleachers and dying to violent lyrics in music? Sorry lady, people slip and fall sometimes. She continually condemns bands such as Def Leppard and Motely Crue for all of societal evils. The books seems to make the assumption that violence would not even exist if rock and roll were not around. This book is only good for research purposes to prove how wrong it is.

Something is wrong with you if you don't agree with me...........2001-12-18

Ok, the title is obviously sarcastic but it is also what I believe to be the underlying idea of censorship. Why does the government, Tipper Gore, or anyone else get to decide what is right and wrong for everyone else to see, learn and watch? This denotes that her opinion is somehow better than everyone else's and it isn't enough for her to be absolute in her own beliefs as an individual, everyone else has to agree.
People should be allowed to freely express themselves by saying whatever they want to say no matter how many people find it offensive. If you don't like it, leave. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and has the right to express it (even Tipper). The problem comes when an opinion gets forced down everyone's. Censorship SHOULD be allowed in the private sector though, such as this very website, because censorship is a form of expression in itself when it comes to your own material. In other words, "If you don't like my website because certain words aren't allowed, make your own." It is the totalitarian attitude that the government should be allowed to censor every single form of communication that blatantly disregards the very 1st amendment.
Adults should be able to decide what they want to see hear and listen to. Now of course this book is directed at parents for their kids so that leads to the question, who gets to decide what kids can and can't watch? The answer is simple: their parents! I think it's a parent's responsibility to raise a child as they see fit. Given that in this book she only gives advice, but in the real political world she believes in imposing censorship. It's probably a good idea to know the author J. How would Tipper Gore like it if the powers shifted and someone was telling her how to raise her kids?

ALSO: I highly recommend ALL PARENTS see the South Park Episode: Cripple Fight. It has great messages about censorship along with the private sector and the government and more! Plus it is great fun!

well its different!!.......2001-07-24

Im never suprised by what right wing fundamentalists will come up with next...There's often a string of ideas that are put together to form a belief system, but with this you dont even get that. It's a confusing read that seems to contradict itself...concerned with a way to raise your kids "the good way"... this is more of a list of how to find "every nasty thing society has ever produced" viewed by an artistically devoid and philosophically empty mind set. To me this seems like the sort of thing the SPANISH INQUISITION would be proud of touting about than a genuinely open minded aproach to parenting. Living in Europe Im removed from the blinkered media that exists in the US so can understand how someone could be allowed to release this as a viable parenting guide. Bordering on the edge of racism and blatant bigotist philosophy I feel that this book is a warning sign that shows that the people in power in the US are as removed from society as you could possibly get. This is more than out of touch. If you need this as a guide to parenting then you have failed in life due to the fact you have been sitting in a glass container for too many years.

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Raising PG Kids In An X-Rated Society
Tipper Gore
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Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society with Leader's Guide By Duerling, Nan

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Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society with Leader's Guide By Duerling, Nan
Tipper Gore
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Plantation Ladies Can't Stand Those Jungle Drums!
It does have an effect and that effect is harmful

Raising Pg Kids in X-Rated Society
Tipper Gore
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Plantation Ladies Can't Stand Those Jungle Drums!.......2006-01-13

If there's one thing that makes a southern belle like Tipper Gore nervous, it's the endless throbbing of the drums from the slave quarters on a hot, still southern night.

That pretty much sums up the real source of Tipper's discomfort with so-called "obscene" rap music.

The irony is, this southern politician's wife is so completely obtuse, so tone-deaf, so just plain cotton-pickin' stupid that she still has NO IDEA why ghetto blacks would resent a patrician white woman (with a cornpone accent a yard long) lecturing them on "justice" and "decency." Tipper Gore really, really doesn't understand that when she tells Ice T to clean up his act she sounds just like her grandmother complaining about those low-down, shiftless darkies -- and those drums. Always those drums, from the slave quarters late at night.

Notice that Tipper's ideas about how art corrupts could be applied to books and poetry as well as to popular music. For example, one could argue that a beloved southern novel like GONE WITH THE WIND, with its images of sub-human darkies and benign slave owners, does at least as much harm as the worst of gangsta rap. One set of lies begets another set of lies. Hate makes hate. But this kind of insight is far beyond Tipper Gore, who finds no need to examine her own conscience or the dark side of her own heritage. All she wants to do is silence those drums -- those awful, throbbing drums.

It does have an effect and that effect is harmful.......2004-05-16

I was very impressed by Mrs. Gore's ability to articulate the effects of the explicitly sexual and or violent lyrics and images which inundate our children's lives. It is a very well researched, thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of this cancer in our society. And make no mistake about it, it is a cancer.

These words and images are teaching our children to derive pleasure from the debasement, the torturing and the killing of other human beings. When people state that this entertainment has little or no effect upon people, I say that these people have little knowledge of history. Societies have been moved by the power of a person's words to excite the passions of its citizens. Our education system is based upon the belief that the words of a teacher or a writer has the ability to transform a child's view of the world.

Look at our current society. Children massacring their classmates; junior high and high schools with day care centers because teens and preteens think nothing of sex and nothing of bringing a child into the world. They are following the lessons that are preached in the songs and videos of their rock star idols .

The notion that parents' can isolate their children from this entertainment, that a parent's value system can make a child impervious to this seduction, is unrealistic and unhealthy As Hillary Clinton stated, "It Takes a Village" to raise a child. Adults, but even more so children, are extremely dependent, and this is as it should be, upon their relationships with their peers to find their meaning in life. Our children are meant to find their ultimate joy not with us but with their peers.

In enumerable situations, the government has made a decision regarding what is harmful to children and thus limits what can be presented to a child. We do not allow children to smoke or even to be seduced into smoking by allowing cigarette advertisements in our schools. We do not allow alcohol advertisements in our school. We do not allow teachers to advocate to their students the butchering of Jews or the enslavement of African Americans. We do not allow adults to sexually seduce a willing adolescent.

Is this censorship? Of course it is. No society has been free of censorship. Up until the 1960's our country thought nothing of censoring what it thought to be lewd and indecent. This did not in anyway threaten our freedom to criticize our government. Except for the few true theocracies, the two have little relationship to one another. If anything, tyrannical governments usually find it to their advantage to dull the senses and the morality of the citizens with licentious entertainment. Look at ancient Rome. Even in our own society as we see more filth being thrown into our faces, we are gradually seeing suppression of criticism of the government in the name of homeland security.

We need to see that our society is contradicting itself in saying that children should be shielded from certain forms of behavior except when that behavior is performed by entertainers.

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Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society

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Witch hunt

Raising Pg Kids in an X-Rated Society

Manufacturer: Bantam Books
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ASIN: 9992898631

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Witch hunt.......2000-10-13

Wow.... Everything you ever feared about Tipper is true. She is a danger to free expression. The only place I could find this book was in CHRISTIAN book stores. The religious right rides again.

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The North African campaign of November 1942-May 1943 was a baptism of fire for the US Army. After relatively straightforward landings, the US II Corps advanced into Tunisia to support operations by the British 8th Army. Rommel, worried by the prospect of an attack, decided to exploit the inexperience of the US Army and strike a blow against their overextended positions around the Kasserine Pass. However, the Germans were unable to exploit their initial success, and later attacks were bloodily repulsed. The fighting in Tunisia taught the green US Army vital combat lessons, and brought to the fore senior commanders such as Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley.

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Good Narative of the Battle.......2005-09-02

At the beginning of the movie Patton he is shown at the site of an American defeat. This was Kasserine Pass. This was the first time that American forces came into contact with the Germans in World War II, and a lot of the American ideas were found wanting.

The battle itself was really quite simple. The Germans under Rommel were retreating from the British. The Americans intended to cross through Kasserine and block his retreat. Rommel decided to teach the upstart Americans a lesson and sent a force to attack the advancing Americans. This is sometimes called Rommel's last victory. The Americans were hurt badly, but because of Arnim's refusal to help and the advancing British, Rommel's forces could not exploit his victory.

The critical points about Kasserine were in the aftermath of the battle.

General Fredendall, the commander of the American II Corp had established an excellent reputation in training his men. Taking them into combat proved to be a different proposition. He was releived and replaced by Patton.

The British generals, especially Montgomery looked at the American defeat and developed the opinion that the American army was not good. At that time they were not as good as his 8th Army. But he forgot that his own introduction to combat had been at a place called Dunkirk. British General Anderson's performance was also found wanting and he was sidelined for the rest of the war.

Some American equipment, the 37 mm anti tank gun and the M3 medium tank were definitely found to be obsolete. The M4 Sherman tank was found to be the equal to what the Germans were using and the decision was made to put it into high volume production. The Army was very slow about improving the Sherman, the Germans went on to the Panther and Tiger.

A lot of the American armies organization, training and doctrine was found to be wanting and was changed. The American army in Normandy in 1944 was not the same as the one at Kasserine.

This small book is an excellent description of the battle. It's maps and drawings clearly illustrate what happened. Mr. Zaloga concludes that this was, in the end, not a defeat for the Americans. It's true that the Americans eventually stopped the Germans, but I think he is a British writer being gracious to the Americans. How about we conclude that this was an American defeat but not a disaster?

Good, but appears to gloss over US tactical mistakes.......2005-07-28

The battle of Kasserine Pass in February 1943 is typically remembered as both the initial baptism of fire of US troops in Europe in the Second World War and as a US tactical defeat that led to much-needed reforms - a theme that was well covered in Rick Atkinson's excellent "An Army at Dawn" in 2002 . However, in Osprey Campaign #152, veteran author Stephen J. Zaloga argues that, "contrary to the popular image, Kasserine Pass was in the end an Allied victory." This is a very hard-sell argument and if it was not a historian of Zaloga's caliber making it, this thesis would probably be dead on arrival. Zaloga argues that the tactical setbacks in the opening days of the campaign caused Eisenhower to heavily reinforce the US II Corps in Tunisia and then ordered it to adopt a more offensive posture than had been contemplated before the German attack, which then led to the quick collapse of the Axis position in southern Tunisia. Zaloga makes a decent case, but in the end it is not that convincing - the plain fac ts about US and German comparative losses in the campaign are rather difficult to get around and still claim that the affair was a US triumph. Indeed, Zaloga's subtitle - "Rommel's last victory" - seems to refute his hypothesis that Kasserine was a US victory. Nevertheless, Zaloga's narrative is clear and well argued as usual, and this volume deserves its place on the bookshelf with Zaloga's earlier volumes.

Zaloga's opening section on the background to the campaign in Tunis and Operation Torch is clear and succinct. The section on opposing commanders - never Zaloga's forte - is a bit weak, particularly in that the focus is mostly on army-level commanders, rather than the actual tactical commanders (for a campaign that essentially only involved a couple of divisions on each side). However, the section on opposing armies is very good and Zaloga covers a great deal in these eleven pages (although the Allied OB is only 5 lines - Zaloga might have listed some of the non-divisional tank destroyer units at least). Zaloga's section on opposing plans is also excellent and highlights both the arguments and disunity in the Axis command that led to a muddled operational plan as well as the failure of Allied intelligence analysis that predicted a German attack elsewhere. Indeed, Zaloga highlights that the availability of Enigma-derived information about German planning led Allied intelligence officers to discount other tactical reporting - today, we would call this a problem in intelligence fusion, where information from one preferred source is allowed to drown out other equally valid sources. Poor intelligence analysis about the location of the expected German attack, combined with inadequate forces and a faulty US tactical doctrine meant that US forces would fight under severe handicaps when they first met the Wehrmacht. The volume also includes five 2-D maps (the strategic situation in Tunisia, 10 February 1943; preliminary moves in central Tunisia, Jan-Feb 1943; rival Axis plans; Operation Wop, 16-23 March 1943; US II Corps in northern Tunisia, April-May 1943) and three 3-D maps (Sidi Bou Zid, 14-15 February 1943; Kasserine Pass, 20-22 February 1943; El Guettar, 23 March 1943). The volume also includes three excellent battle scenes (the charge of 2/1st Armored at Sidi Bou Zid, 15 Feb 1943; 10th Panzer Division at El Guettar, 23 March; Operation Flax: the Cap Bon Massacre, 22 April 1943) by Michael Welply.

Zaloga's coverage of the initial fighting around Sidi Bou Zid is a bit skimpy and he seems to avoid any criticism of the extremely inept US tactical leadership in this first battle. Zaloga notes that German panzers moved to "silence" US artillery - in fact they overran and destroyed the 2-17th Field Artillery. He says senior US commanders "were wary" of the first reports of the attack - in fact, Eisenhower was goofing off with his staff at the time. Nor does Zaloga mention the fate of the 168th Infantry Regiment which was left isolated in the hills near Sidi Bou Zid - both battalions attempted to escape but about 1,800 US troops were captured in the process. In a matter of one day, the Germans had eliminated virtually an entire US reinforced brigade, at slight cost to themselves. Furthermore, Zaloga makes little mention of the uneven performance of US troops in this first fight - with some fighting heroically but others running or refusing to fight. All in all, the US performance at Sidi Bou Zid was very poor - but this is not entirely evident in Zaloga's account.

The section on the actual fighting in Kasserine Pass is good, emphasizing both Rommel's failure to settle on a single tactical objective and the chaotic Allied efforts to stem the German breakthrough. At this point, Zaloga probably should have started to wrap the volume up, since he had covered the actual Kasserine Pass fighting, but instead he chooses to cover the US role in the final stages of the Tunisian Campaign in the last third of the volume. Zaloga essentially ignores the Commonwealth forces in this last stage - they actually formed the bulk of Allied forces in Tunisia - and focuses only on the US II Corps, which presents an incomplete and rather unnecessary wrap-up to the campaign. In particular, Zaloga points to Patton's success at El Guettar on 23 March 1943 as the "US Army's first victory over the Wehrmacht ." However, Zaloga does not mention that the US 9th Infantry Division suffered over 3,000 casualties in the next week around El Guettar without achieving much and Major General Ward, commander of the 1st Armored Division, was wounded in close combat. If El Guettar was a victory, it didn't trouble the Germans much. Zaloga seems to want to avoid criticizing the US conduct in this campaign, but that is rather difficult and the idea that it was a victory is a stretch.

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Decent- Like Not Love

The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History Volume C: Since 1750 (Second Edition)
Richard W. Bulliet , Pamela Kyle Crossley , Daniel R. Headrick , Steven W. Hirsch , Lyman L. Johnson , and David Northrup
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Decent- Like Not Love.......2004-04-21

The book was a little dry, but in preparing me for my AP exam, I feel it did a decent job. My teacher substituted chapters from other books as well, so the information lacking from the earth and its people was compinsated. Although dry, the book opened my awareness to many components involved in world history. I liked the book, but didn't love it.

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Explores the role of biomarker data in evaluating the impact of human environmental and occupational exposure to pesticides. Focuses on two types of biomarkers: residue analysis of parent compounds or metabolites and end points representing interactions between xenobiotic and endogenous components. Characterizes the molecular basis of various biomarker methods and examines structure-activity relationships. Surveys biomarker measurement methods currently in use and examines methods for biomarker data analysis and applications of these methods to risk assessment.

Cultivating Crisis: The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America

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Cultivating Crisis: The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America
Douglas L. Murray
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Since World War II, the Green Revolution has boosted agricultural production in Latin America and other parts of the Third World, with money, technical assistance, and other forms of aid from United States development agencies. But the Green Revolution came at a high price--massive pesticide dependence that has caused serious socioeconomic and public health problems and widespread environmental damage. In this study, Douglas Murray draws on ten years of field research to tell the stories of international development strategies, pesticide problems, and agrarian change in Latin America. Interwoven with his considerations of economic and geopolitical dimensions are the human consequences for individual farmers and rural communities. This highly interdisciplinary study, integrating the perspectives of sociology, ecology, economics, political science, and public health, adds an important voice to the debate on opportunities for and obstacles to more lasting and sustainable development in the Third World. It will be of interest to a wide audience in the social and environmental sciences.

The Effects of Pesticides on Human Health (Advances in Modern Environmental Toxicology)

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The Effects of Pesticides on Human Health (Advances in Modern Environmental Toxicology)
S. R. Baker
Manufacturer: Princeton Scientific Pub
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Human Health Effects of Pesticide
Matthew Keifer
Manufacturer: Hanley & Belfus
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Interpretive Review of the Potential Adverse Effects of Chlorinated Organic Chemicals on Human Health and the Environment (Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, Volume 20, Number 1, Part 2 of 2 parts, August 1994)

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Interpretive Review of the Potential Adverse Effects of Chlorinated Organic Chemicals on Human Health and the Environment (Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, Volume 20, Number 1, Part 2 of 2 parts, August 1994)
Frederick (editor) Coulston
Manufacturer: Academic Press / Harcourt, Brace & Co.
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A report of an expert panel on the environmental and human health effects of chlorine-based chemicals, including vinyl chloride, polyvynyl chloride, pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, and many other chlorinated chemical compounds. It also looks at pulp and paper manufacture, drinking water and wastewater treatment, and incineration, and the health risks posed by the chlorine-based components involved in these processes.

Pesticide Nun : An article from: The Ecologist

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Pesticide Nun : An article from: The Ecologist
Jonathan Leake
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Release Date: 2006-05-01

Pesticide Residues in Food and Drinking Water: Human Exposure and Risks (Wiley Series in Agrochemicals & Plant Protection)

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Pesticide Residues in Food and Drinking Water: Human Exposure and Risks (Wiley Series in Agrochemicals & Plant Protection)

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ASIN: 0471489913

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This book explores human exposure and consumer risk assessment in response to issues surrounding pesticide residues in food and drinking water.

All the three main areas of consumer risk assessment including human toxicology, pesticide residue chemistry and dietary consumption are brought together and discussed.

Includes the broader picture - the environmental fate of pesticides
Takes an international approach with contributors from the European Union, USA and Australia
Highlights the increasing concerns over food safety and the risks to humans

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As consumers, we do not want pesticide residues in our food because they have no nutritional value and can potentially pose a risk to health. However, in order to ensure that a consistent supply of economical and high quality food is available, the use of pesticides is necessary and sometimes residues will remain in the food supply. As a compromise, we require that the amount of residue in our food and drinking water will not be harmful to our health and should be no more than absolutely necessary. Risk assessment, which uses scientific processes to meet these requirements, has progressed considerably in recent years.
This book describes the issues surrounding pesticide residues in food and drinking water and, in particular, the issues associated with human exposure and consumer risk assessment. In broad terms, consumer risk assessment encompasses three areas of scientific disciplines--human toxicology, pesticide residue chemistry and dietary consumption, all of which are explored in detail within this book.
Topics covered include the effects of pesticides on the environment, metabolism, food processing, toxicology, dietary consumption, chronic and acute dietary intakes, natural compounds, international standards and explaining the risks.
Pesticide Residues in Food and Drinking Water is the latest addition to the Wiley Series in Agrochemicals and Plant Protection. This series brings together current scientific and regulatory knowledge and perspectives on all aspects of the use of chemicals and biotechnology in agriculture.

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Pesticides & Human Hlth
Hallenbeck
Manufacturer: Springer
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Arsenic biogeochemistry and human health risk assessment in organo-arsenical pesticide-applied acidic and alkaline soils: An incubation study [An article from: Science of the Total Environment, The]

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Arsenic biogeochemistry and human health risk assessment in organo-arsenical pesticide-applied acidic and alkaline soils: An incubation study [An article from: Science of the Total Environment, The]
R. Datta , D. Sarkar , S. Sharma , and K. Sand
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This digital document is a journal article from Science of the Total Environment, The, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Organo-arsenical compounds are considered non-carcinogenic, and hence, are still allowed by the regulatory agencies for use in agriculture as pesticides. Due to rapid encroachment of suburban areas into former agricultural lands, the potential for human exposure to soil-arsenic has increased tremendously in recent years. However, insufficient data is available on the stability of organo-arsenicals in soils; as to whether they remain in an organic form, or are converted over time to potentially carcinogenic inorganic forms. A static incubation study was conducted to estimate soil speciation and in-vitro bioavailability (i.e., bioaccessibility) of arsenic as a function of soil properties. Two chemically variant soil types were chosen, based on their potential differences with respect to arsenic reactivity: an acid sand with minimal arsenic retention capacity and an alkaline clay loam with relatively high concentrations of Fe/Al and Ca/Mg. The soils were amended with dimethylarsenic acid (DMA) at three rates, 45, 225 and 450 mg/kg, and incubated for 1 year. A sequential extraction scheme was employed to identify the geochemical forms of arsenic in soils, which were correlated with the in-vitro bioavailable fractions of arsenic. Human health risk calculated in terms of excess cancer risk (ECR) showed that risk assessment based on bioaccessible arsenic concentrations instead of the traditional total soil arsenic is a more realistic approach. Results showed that soil properties (such as pH, Fe/Al content and soil texture) of the two soils dictated the geochemical speciation, and hence, bioaccessibility of arsenic from DMA, indicating that the use of organic arsenicals as pesticides in mineral soils may not be a safe practice from a human health risk perspective.

Chemicals and Developmental Disabilities-Get The Mercury and Pesticides Out of Your Diet!: An article from: The Exceptional Parent

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Chemicals and Developmental Disabilities-Get The Mercury and Pesticides Out of Your Diet!: An article from: The Exceptional Parent
Kara LeBeau , and Michele Gagnon
Manufacturer: ProQuest Information and Learning
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ASIN: B000ENWKG0
Release Date: 2006-02-21

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