The intensification of agriculture has led to the widespread use of chemical pesticides for the control of pests and diseases. However, it has been demonstrated that these pesticides can enter the animal body through a number of different pathways, with
“conducting operations relating directly to taking or catching fish, turtles, dugong, beche-de-mer, crustaceans or aquatic molluscs”, “conducting operations relating directly to taking or culturing pearls or pearl shell”, “planting or tending trees in a plantation or forest that are intended ...