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" ... Certain cultivated crops have become popular in developing countries because they thrive without costly synthetic pesticides. However, the tradeoffs of cultivating some of these naturally pest-resistant crops are that they are highly toxic and require... "
Environmental Toxins and Children: Exploring the Risks : Hearing Before the ... - Page 167
by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families - 1991
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Mutagens in Food

Hikoya Hayatsu - 1990 - 304 pages
...extensive processing to detoxify them. For example, cassava root, which is a major food crop in Africa, is quite resistant to pests and disease; however,...process of washing, grinding, fermenting, and heating can make it edible."5 In India, the pest-resistant grain Lathyrus sativus is cultivated to make some...
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Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns

Jay H. Lehr - 1992 - 868 pages
...crops are that they are highly toxic and require extensive processing to detoxify them. For example, cassava root, a major food crop in Africa and South...process of washing, grinding, fermenting, and heating can make it edible; ataxia due to chronic cyanide poisoning is endemic in many of the cassava-eating...
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Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law

Kenneth R. Foster, David E. Bernstein, Peter William Huber - 1999 - 476 pages
...pest-resistant crops are highly toxic and require extensive processing to detoxify them. For example, cassava root, a major food crop in Africa and South...resistant to pests and disease. However it contains so much cyanide that extensive washing, grinding, fermenting, and heating are needed to make it edible....
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