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Kepone (chlordecone) is reasonably anticipated to be a human car-cinogen based on suficient evidence of carcinogenicity from studies in experimental animals.
18 de mar. de 2023 · Chlordecone (Kepone) poisoning in the French Territories in the Americas. For more than 40 years, two French territories in the Americas, Martinique and Guadeloupe, have been confronted with one of the biggest environmental scandals in Caribbean history due to the use of an organochlorine pesticide, chlordecone (also known under the brand name ...
Kepone (decachlorooctahydro- 1,2,4-metheno-2 H —cyclobuta (6d)pentalen-2-one) is a hydrated chlorinated polycyclic ketone insecticide synthesized by the dimerization of hexachlorocyclopentadiene ( Huff and Gerstner, 1978 ). It and the closely related mirex are potent ant killers. Huber (1965) noted that dietary exposure of male and female ...
8 de jul. de 2005 · Thirty years ago, a dangerous pesticide hospitalized 29 factory workers in Hopewell and shut down fishing on the James, but was the public health threat media hype or dead on?
14 de mar. de 2024 · The 50th anniversary of Virginia's Kepone disaster is being marked, where workers for a small chemical company dumped the harmful pesticide into Hopewell's waterways. The run-off caused severe harm to
Background-Kepone is a historically important anthropogenic contaminant that was first introduced to the aquatic environment of Chesapeake Bay over 35 years ago. In late 1975, it was discovered that a manufacturing facility had not only exposed workers to the chlorinated pesticide, Kepone, but had also severely contaminated the James River estuary (Huggett and Bender, 1980). To assess the ...
Kepone dapat berakumulasi 1 juta kali lipat pada hewan dan manusia yang terkena paparan langsung. Namun, penggunaan kepone saat ini telah menjadi kontrovesional dan terlarang karena debu yang dihasilkan pada proses pembuatan insektisida ini telah menutup lantai sampai beberapa inch dan memenuhi udara dalam pabrik.
