INTRODUCTION
A herbicide is any preparation used to kill or inhibit the growth of plants. The term includes defoliants, desiccants, plant growth regulators and soil sterilants. Militarily, herbicides have been used against forest croplands and brush along roads and rivers and around military establishments.
A wide variety of chemical substances have been used as herbicides.
There is very little likelihood of human beings or animals being poisoned as a result of dioxin-free non-cropland vegetation control. In spraying operations from aircraft, flag-men and women on the ground probably receive relatively high doses, yet a serious case of acute herbicide poisoning has never been confirmed. Poisoning may, however, result from accidental or suicidal ingestion of large quantities of undiluted herbicides. Also important is the fact that toxic residues of these herbicides will not accumulate sufficiently in meat animals to pose a hazard in humans.
SPECIFIC HERBICIDES
2, 4-D and 2, 4, 5-TCacodylic AcidPicloram
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