-
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...
-
initially administered.
Although chlordecone has not been used
since the 1990s, the
health risks remain.
Chlordecone contamination occurs through contaminated...
- In enzymology, a
chlordecone reductase (EC 1.1.1.225) is an
enzyme that
catalyzes the
chemical reaction chlordecone alcohol + NADP+ ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons...
-
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%...
-
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...
- POPs:
Chlordecone, a
synthetic chlorinated organic compound, is
primarily used as an
agricultural pesticide,
related to DDT and Mirex.
Chlordecone is toxic...
-
Xenoestrogen Endosulfan EDS <0.001–<0.01 <0.01 ? ?
Xenoestrogen Kepone Chlordecone 0.0069–0.2 ? ? ?
Xenoestrogen o,p'-DDT – 0.0073–0.4 ? ? ? Xenoestrogen...
- wool,
toxaphene at 0.8%,
pentachlorophenol or BHC at 0.5%, DDT at 0.2%,
chlordecone and
mirex at 0.06%, and
dieldrin at 0.05%.
Imidazole (a non-chlorinated...
