Over half of the interviewees
declared they knew that pesticides left residues. In S2, 92.1% of the
interviewed people believed that pesticides were harmful to human
health, but 46.9% of the people in S1 held the opposite attitude on thisaffair (p b 0.01). Opinions on the effects of pesticides on the environment
were significantly different: 43.6% of the people in S2 thought
that pesticides could affect environmental quality, but 49.2% of the interviewees
in S1 “had no idea” (p b 0.01).