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A 5 page paper discussing the tetragenic effectiveness primarily of methyl bromide, which requires handling by certified individuals, and benomyl, a fungicide that until relatively recently was considered so safe that it has been used as a fruit wash to deter storage diseases in produce. They both are tetragens, substances that can cause birth defects when the mother ingests them during pregnancy. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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File: CC6_KStetrag.doc
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substance can hold a measure of danger, without knowing specifically what that path of danger might be. To the general population, cancer research became laughable within the past generation
in that everything was found to play a role in cancer development, right down to storing food in plastic wrap. Since broad terms for potential actions of harm contaminants
can play have been established, however, the action of organisms has regained much of its formerly lost respect. Carcinogens quite naturally cause cancer; mutagens cause the hose DNA to
reorder itself either to enhance or decrease genetic resistance. A tetragen is a substance that can cause birth defects when it is ingested by a pregnant mother (Envirosafe, 1998).
Powdery mildew is a fungus that can affect yield and food quality of agricultural crops and ornamental value of ornamental plants. It
can be annoying and costly in that it can reduce agricultural yield, but it is rarely severe enough to cause plant death. Important when per-acre yield is, it needs
to be controlled for better general plant health. Some other fungus organisms of interest here include "scab of apples, peaches,and pecans; brown
rot of stone fruits; fruit rots in general; Cercospora leaf spots; cherry leaf spot; black spot of roses; blast of rice; various Sclerotinia and Botrytis diseases...Fusarium and Verticillium" (Agrios, 1978;
p. 135). Benomyl (Benlate) is a fungicide that had been considered to be "a safe, broad-spectrum fungicide against a large nuber of important
fungus pathogens and it also suppresses mites" (Agrios, 1978; p. 135). Botrytis organisms are responsible for the loss of millions of dollars worth of stored produce each year; every
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