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The need for teaching undergraduate students the pesticides label contents In Faculties of Agriculture


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Marcela Pimid and Kumara Thevan Krishnan (2015) The need for teaching undergraduate students the pesticides label contents In Faculties of Agriculture. Journal of Tropical Resources and Sustainable Sciences, 3. pp. 18-21. ISSN 2289-3946

Abstract

Pesticides labels contain specific information that is of interest at various pesticide
handling stages. In current study, 14 students from Faculty of Agro Based Industry,
University Malaysia Kelantan, Malaysia were assessed on their ability to understand the
content of 14 pesticides product labels. The results of this study indicate that students
were able to retrieve information such as hazard class, manufacturer and signal word
with accuracy of 97.5 %, 98.7 % and 86.2 % without any formal training, respectively.
Meanwhile, the worst performances of students were in retrieving information of the
type of formulation from the pesticide product label which, only 4 responses (5 %) were
accurate.

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Item Type: Non-Indexed Article
Collection Type: Institution
Date: 2015
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Tropical Resources and Sustainable Sciences
ISSN: 2289-3946
Uncontrolled Keywords: Formulation - Malaysia - Pesticide product label - Students - Training.
Faculty/Centre/Office: Faculty of Agro - Based Industry
URI: http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/8040
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