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Chlordecone, better known in the United States under the brand name Kepone, is an organochlorine compound and a colourless solid. It is an obsolete insecticide, now prohibited in the western world, but only after many thousands of tonnes had been produced and used.
Este pesticida fue sintetizado por primera vez en 1951, un año más tarde la sustancia fue patentada y finalmente su introducción comercial fue en 1958 en Estados Unidos por Allied Chemical bajo la denominación comercial de Kepone® y GC-1189.
14 de sept. de 2021 · Kepone is a toxic insecticide that a chemical plant in Hopewell, Virginia dumped into the James River from 1966 to 1975. The disaster caused environmental and health problems, fishing bans, and lawsuits, but also led to improved environmental awareness.
19 de feb. de 2024 · Temik, curlone, kepone... Patrick Dantin ha escrito todos los nombres de los pesticidas a base de clordecona que ha esparcido a lo largo de los años con grandes letras en bolígrafo, en una hoja ...
18 de mar. de 2023 · Published: March 18, 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736 (23)00180-0. 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 ...
21 de dic. de 2021 · Kepone (chlordecone) is reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen based on sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity from studies in experimental animals. Cancer Studies in Experimental Animals Dietary administration of chlordecone caused liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) in rats and mice of both sexes.
7 de dic. de 2016 · Learn about the history and impact of the Kepone disaster, a major environmental crisis in Virginia in the 1970s. Find out how Kepone poisoned workers, contaminated the James River, and sparked a landmark lawsuit.
