Explore: Environmental Aspects Of Toxaphene

Toxaphene was an insecticide used primarily for cotton in the southern United States during the late 1960s and the 1970s. Toxaphene is a mixture of over

of fish livers. Toxaphene concentrations were discovered far from the area of its use through analysis of trout in the Great Lakes. The evidence of atmospheric

heptachlor, toxaphene, and mirex. Some uses of DDT continued under the public health exemption. For example, in June 1979, the California Department of Health

Bay also have high levels of contaminants, especially mercury. Beluga whales also have DDT, PCB's, Chlordane, and toxaphene in their blubber. Mercury

of environmental estrogens, Cancer Causes Control, 2004, 15(6):591–600. (c) Soto AM, Chung KL, Sonnenschein C, The pesticides endosulfan, toxaphene,

up to 20 years—such as DDT, aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, and toxaphene), or even permanent (as seen in substances like lead, mercury, and arsenic)

of research on their production environmental deposition and fate, bioaccumulation, toxicology, and epidemiology in the United States". Environmental

leading to a toxic accumulation of byproducts. To combat the accumulation of pyrethroids in bodies of water, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has

insects as well as for vector control. They have low vertebrate and environmental toxicity. Methoprene and pyriproxyfen are recommended by the World Health

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