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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, nonbiodegradable insecticide that was dumped into the James River from 1966 to 1975 by a chemical plant in Hopewell, Virginia. The dumping caused a environmental and medical scandal that led to fishing bans, advisories, and lawsuits. The environmental and medical effects of Kepone were later discovered and improved.
Chlordecone (CD; Kepone™) is a carcinogenic organochlorine insecticide with neurological, reproductive, and developmental toxicity that was widely used in the French West Indies (FWI) from 1973 to 1993 to fight banana weevils.
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 ...
7 de dic. de 2016 · A historical research project by a professor of history at the University of Akron into the environmental crisis of 1975 when workers at a factory in Hopewell, VA were poisoned by Kepone, an insecticide. Learn about the causes, effects, and legacy of this forgotten environmental catastrophe that affected the city and the region.
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.
