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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...
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initially administered.
Although chlordecone has not been used
since the 1990s, the
health risks remain.
Chlordecone contamination occurs through contaminated...
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heavily contaminated with
chlordecone,
following years of its m****ive
unrestricted use on
banana plantations in the region.
Chlordecone was
banned globally...
- In enzymology, a
chlordecone reductase (EC 1.1.1.225) is an
enzyme that
catalyzes the
chemical reaction chlordecone alcohol + NADP+ ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons...
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protothecoides accelerated the
detoxification of rats
poisoned with
chlordecone, a
persistent insecticide,
decreasing the half-life of the
toxin from...
- than half of
which come from
residues of now-banned pesticides, such as
chlordecone) were
found in "79% of the
watersheds analyzed in Grande-Terre and 84%...
- disease.[citation needed]
Chlordecone is
primarily used as an
agricultural pesticide,
related to DDT and Mirex.
Chlordecone is
toxic to
aquatic organisms...
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plantations within its boundaries, and as a
result was
affected by the
Chlordecone scandal. The
regional nature park
created a
label to
guarantee food products...
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emitted in
residential ba****ts,
environmental contaminants such as
chlordecone,
cigarette smoke and
ingestion of some
types of
foods such as alcohol...
- herbicides, pesticides, and
fungicides such as benomyl, carbendazim,
chlordecone, methoxychlor, methylmercury, fenarimol, and TCDD. The
Florida panther...
