Pesticide Chemistry: Crop Protection, Public Health, Environmental Safety

Hideo Ohkawa holds the chair of Agrochemicals and Biotechnology at Kobe University, Japan. Prior to his academic appointment, he spent almost 20 years working in the agrochemical division of Sumitomo Chemical Corp.
Professor Ohkawa has edited several books on agrochemicals and is the chairman of the organizing committee of the 2006 IUPAC Congress on Pesticide Chemistry.

Hisashi Miyagawa heads the laboratory of bioregulation chemistry at the Kyoto University Faculty of Agriculture (Kyoto, Japan). He is the chairman of the scientific committee of the 2006 IUPAC Congress on Pesticide Chemistry.

Philip W. Lee is with the Crop Protection Division of DuPont at Newark, NJ (USA). He has edited the well-known Handbook of Residue Analytical Methods for Agrochemicals.