Re: PMID: 10499361 - Pesticide heptachlor affects dopamine transp...

[Patty Maeglin <PMAEGS168@xxxxxxx>]

HEPTACHLOR

(TRADE NAME  VELSICOL 104) voluntarily stopped selling heptachlor

Heptachlor is an insecticide
light tan solid color, smells a bit like camphor
originally used for malaria carrying mosquitos
has been used for soil crop pest, cotton insects, grasshoppers.
Last known use of heptachlor to kill termites in residential buildings in
California in 1986 . Military personnel residential buildings.
exposure to residues is possible
listed as a hazardous air pollutant under section 311 in the 1990 Clean Air
Act
oxidized form is heptachlor epoxide
Several incidents of heptachlor contamination of diary products in Hawaii,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri when diary cows were fed fodder that had
been treated with heptachlor. By legal standards, fodder treated with this
pesticide was allowed to be used after a specific waiting period for the
compounds to breakdown
FDA study -- toddlers and infants greater risk of heptachlor epoxide exposure
in Northern central region of US
Heptachlor is readily absorbed by intestines, stomach, skin, and lungs.
Chronic exposure may affect the liver.
Restricted use in the United states, the Soviet union, Italy, Switzerland,
and Japan
cancellation of most uses of the chemical pesticide in 1978.

Chemical Backgrounders-Evironmental Health Center (Environmental Writer)
Toxics A to Z (Harte, Holden, Schneider, Shirley)