Sentences with phrase «use organochlorines»
«If other countries use organochlorines and we [U.S] import food from them it can be contaminated,» Perry said.
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The study of 50 pregnant women found detectable levels of organochlorines in all of the women participating in the study — including DDT, PCBs and other pesticides that have been banned from use for more than 30 years.
After a lengthy scientific review, the United States last week decided to ban the use of endosulfan, an inexpensive organochlorine pesticide that builds up in the environment.
«Although most researchers in Africa are concerned with organochlorine pesticides — especially DDT which is still used for malaria control — PCB contamination should not be overlooked,» Klánová told Nature.
• 15 % Dieldrin (organochlorine) Second only to DDT in use between 1950 and 1970.
A third organochlorine on the list, endosulfan, is still used in the United States.
• 23 % DDT (organochlorine) First used as an insecticide in 1939.
Declaring that endosulfan is unsafe, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it is about to ban one of the last organochlorine pesticides still used in the United States.
Forty percent of all pesticides used worldwide are from the organochlorine class of chemicals, including the now - banned pesticide DDT, made infamous in Rachel Carson's seminal work Silent Spring.