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Kepone /Ke·pone/ (ke´pōn) trademark for a nonbiodegradable polychlorinated ketone, used as an insecticide; workers exposed to it have suffered neurologic symptoms such as tremors and slurred speech. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| While employed by the Virginia Water Control Board, Bellanca chaired the Kepone Task Force, and the Chesapeake Bay Oil Spill Task Force. Pesticides like chlordane, kepone and heptachlor proliferate breast tumor cells, as studies suggest estrogen does. Amendments to the early Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948, inspired by increasing awareness of the degradation of the nation's waterways such as the release of kepone into the James River in Virginia, created the Clean Water Act (CWA) of 1972 for protection of surface waters (CWA 1972; U. |
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