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Glossary
Anticholinesterase is a substance that inhibits the activity of cholinesterase (inc acetylcholinesterase) enzymes. These enzymes break down the chemicals that trigger across the synapse of nerves. The result is the nervous system "fires" too much causing headaches, stomach aches, tremours, and in severe cases, death.
Approved are those on the EU Annex 1 list and accepted for designated uses by the UK's Advisory Committee on Pesticides (ACP). UK Approved List
Duty of Care applies to anybody who carries, keeps, treats, or disposes of waste, or who acts as a third party and arranges matters such as imports or disposal. They must ensure that nobody in the chain commits an offence regarding waste.
Eutrophication is the enrichment of an ecosystem with chemical nutrients, typically compounds containing nitrogen or phosphorus, that promotes plant growth, favoring certain species over others and forcing a change in species composition. In aquatic environments, enhanced growth of choking aquatic vegetation or phytoplankton (that is, an algal bloom) disrupts normal functioning of the ecosystem, causing a variety of problems. From Wikipedia
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Good Agricultural Practice is the achievement of the desired degree of control of pests and diseases at an economic cost with minimum hazard to operators and other people in the vicinity, consumers, beneficial organisms and the environment.
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Integrated Crop Management (ICM) is a cropping strategy in which the farmer seeks to conserve and enhance the natural environment while economically producing safe, wholesome food. Its long-term aim is to optimise the needs of consumers, society, the environment and the farmer. ICM is based on an understanding of the biological and ecological interactions, in nutrient cycles, pests, weeds and diseases, with farm management systems. It is also geared towards sustaining and optimising natural resources.
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Prophylactic, is generally, a preventive measure. The word comes from the Greek for "an advance guard," an apt term for a measure taken to fend off a disease. However, in pesticide use it means spraying "just in case" rather than waiting for signs, or threshold, of disease. National Pesticide Strategy para 19 for more.
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