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DDT
DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) An
organochlorine compound that was first synthesized in 1874. In 1939 the Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller (1899–1965) discovered its insecticidal properties, for which he was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. DDT was used widely to control arthropod parasites of humans and then as an agricultural and horticultural insecticide. Its use was curtailed, and abandoned in many countries, because the chemical stability that allowed it to remain effective for long periods also caused its accumulation along
food-chains and because target insects were acquiring resistance to it.
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DDT resistance and transformation by different microbial strains isolated from DDT-contaminated soils and compost materials
Magazine article from: Compost Science & Utilization; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...2-bis (4-chlorophenyl) ethane (DDT) contaminated sites. In areas where suitable microbes are not present, the use of DDT resistant microbial inoculants may be necessary...Therefore, this work aimed to screen DDT-contaminated soil and compost materials...
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DDT Ban Continues to Kill People
Magazine article from: Human Events; 7/19/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...environmental extremists have sought to ban all DDT use. Using phony studies from the Environmental...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned DDT in 1972. The extremists convinced the nation that DDT was not only unsafe for humans but unsafe to...
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DDT Risk Assessments.
Magazine article from: Environmental Health Perspectives; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Substances and Disease Registry toxicologic profile for DDT (3) make repeated references to DDT risks. These statements of risk, like so many...increases in diseases previously controlled with DDT. Behind disease statistics are grievous human tragedies...
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DDT and breast cancer in young women: new data on the significance of age at exposure.(Research)(dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane)(Clinical report)
Magazine article from: Environmental Health Perspectives; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; BACKGROUND: Previous studies of DDT and breast cancer assessed exposure later in life when the breast may not have been vulnerable, after most DDT had been eliminated, and after DDT had been banned. OBJECTIVES: We investigated whether...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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DDT CASTS A SPELL ON FOURTH LAKE; ITS USE WAS BANNED IN 1970, BUT IT CONTINUES TO CONTAMINATE THE LAKE TODAY.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 6/30/2002; 700+ words
; ...Thirty-two years after it was banned, DDT still haunts Fourth Lake. Nobody knows...readings show high levels. Others say the DDT lurks somewhere in the nearby hills, perhaps...would sparkle with health if not for the DDT contamination, which doesn't seem to...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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DDT saves millions of lives, and ban is immoral
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 7/8/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...environmental extremists have sought to ban all DDT use. Using phony studies from the Environmental...controlled Environmental Protection Agency banned DDT in 1972. The extremists convinced the nation that DDT was not only unsafe for humans but unsafe to...
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DDT Risk Assessments: Response.
Magazine article from: Environmental Health Perspectives; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Fund (WWF) failed in efforts to eliminate DDT under the recently negotiated persistent organic...strongly supports the treaty's language on DDT. Throughout the negotiations, the WWF recognized that DDT should not be banned immediately and that...
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DDT key to Third World's winning war on Malaria
Magazine article from: Human Events; 5/14/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Dozen" chemicals, but permit limited use of DDT. Given what Secretary of State Colin Powell calls the "dire humanitarian need for DDT," he and other American officials should work to keep DDT available to malaria-- plagued Third World...
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DDT and breast cancer revisited: new findings in an old debate.(Science Selections)(dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane)
Magazine article from: Environmental Health Perspectives; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...have found new evidence potentially linking DDT with breast cancer in women [EHP 115:1406...et al]. The findings come at a time when DDT is once again being promoted as a tool to combat malaria. DDT was widely used as a pesticide in the United...
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DDT and DDE: effect on second generation time to pregnancy.(Reproductive Toxicants)
Magazine article from: Environmental Health Perspectives; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...van den Berg BJ, Siiteri PK. 2003. DDT and DDE exposure in mothers and time to...estrogenic chemicals, including the insecticide DDT and its metabolites, might produce similar...Organization estimates that during the period of DDT's use approximately 25 million lives were...
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DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane)
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) DDT is a synthetic chemical compound once used widely in the United...extremely dangerous to humans and the environment. The abbreviation DDT stands for dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane. DDT was first produced...
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DDT
Book article from: Medical Discoveries
DDT DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) is perhaps the most recognized of...pests. Although first synthesized in 1874 by German chemist Othmar Zeidler, DDT was not used as an insecticide until 1939. It was then that Swiss scientist...
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DDT (Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroacetic Acid)
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
DDT (Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroacetic Acid) Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroacetic acid (or DDT) is a chlorinated hydrocarbon that has been widely used as an insecticide. DDT is virtually insoluble in water, but is freely soluble...
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DDT (Dichlorodiphenyl Trichloroethane)
Book article from: Pollution A to Z
DDT (Dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane) DDT, dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane, was synthesized in 1874...discovery, which coincided with the outbreak of World War II, when DDT was used extensively to keep soldiers free of head and body lice...
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DDT—Before Silent Spring
Book article from: American Decades
DDT — BEFORE SILENT SPRING An Extraordinary...scientific discoveries of World War II. "DDT will be to preventive medicine what Lister...of the U.S. surgeon general's office. DDT stopped a typhus epidemic in Naples and promised...
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