Sentences with word «heptachlor»

Although not much is known about its toxicity, «The chemical's structure is similar to that of organochlorine pesticides such as heptachlor, chlordane, aldrin, and mirex, all of which have been either banned or restricted in the U.S.»:: ES&T;, see also earlier ES&T;

For individual pesticides, increased risk was identified in association with exposure to chlordane, oxylchlordane, trans - nonachlor, DDT, DDE dieldrin, heptachlor and HCB.

Research has found that pesticide applicators exposed to heptachlor, an organochlorine insecticide, have 94 percent increased odds of developing diabetes.

Persistent Organic Pollutants include: aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, chlordane, DDT, heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene, mirex, toxaphene, PCBs, dioxins, and furans.

Endrin (Hexadrin), aldrin (Aldrite, Drinox), endosulfan (Thiodan), dieldrin (Dieldrite), toxaphene (Toxakil, Strobane - T), lindane (gamma BHC or HCH, Isotox), hexachlorocyclohexane (BHC), DDT (chlorophenothane), heptachlor (Heptagran), chlordecone (Kepone), terpene polychlorinates (Strobane), chlordane (Chlordan), dicofol (Kelthane), mirex (Dechlorane), methoxychlor (Marlate), dienochlor (Pentac), TDE (DDD, Rhothane), ethylan (Perthane).

Even after use of DDT and heptachlor, another pesticide harmful to birds, came to be tightly restricted on the U.S. mainland in the early 1970s, both remained in use on Hawaiian pineapple plantations for many more years.

The chemicals intentionally produced and currently assigned for elimination under the Stockholm Convention are the pesticides aldrin, chlordane, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene (HCB), mirex and toxaphene, as well as the industrial chemical Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs).