It is not necessary to highlight the importance that the use of pesticides has in today's world. These chemical compounds are invaluably helpful for the man in the fight against vectorial transmitters of diseases and plagues, which everywhere decimate the crops of the main cultivations for population's feeding and render useless the effort of millions of agricultural workers in the whole world.

In these pages, that the reader has in his hands, he will find an interesting and updated work, written by one of our most outstanding specialists in this field.

As a result of the author's effort, it will be appreciated throughout the book, duly illustrated, aspects as interesting as the current importance of the use of pesticides, the general principles of determination of its residuals, the methods for the determination of its behaviour in the environment, its most outstanding toxic-logical aspects and, finally, the unavoidable relationship between pesticides and environmental contamination.