These chemicals include
kepone, o,p-'-DDT and butylparaben (ESR1 agonist), and linuron and methoxychlor (AR antagonist) (Judson et al., 2015; Kleinstreuer et al., 2017).
Chlordecone (i.e.,
Kepone) contamination is a particular problem in the French Antilles because it was used extensively there until 1993 as an insecticide for banana weevil borer control (Boucher et al.
Guzelian, "Comparative toxicology of chlordecone (
kepone) in humans and experimental animals," Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology, vol.
Idiopathic rICP has been reported in several studies and also as a complication of a list of drugs, including chlordecone (
kepone), ketoprofen or indomethacin in Bartter's syndrome, thyroid replacement therapy in hypothyroid children, tetracycline and its derivatives, amiodarone, hypervitaminosis A, lithium carbonate, nalidixic acid, sulfa antibiotics and risperidone.
On the issue of importing toxic waste from the US, a diplomat wrote: "EPA (the Environmental Protection Agency) has requested Department's assistance in confirming Allied Chemical Corporation contention that the UK Government has been informed of the trial incineration of 80 drums of
Kepone scheduled to be performed by Rechem International Ltd, Pontypool, Wales.
Effet of
Kepone of estuarine microbial activity, Microb.
The exhibition took place in the presence of the European Union Ambassador's Representative, Marcelo Mori, Swedish Ambassador to Lebanon, Nicholas
kepone, and scores of concerned dignitaries.
Our area is no longer in a crisis (or perceived crisis) that causes it to take priority over other more pressing national problems such as terrorism and the financial crisis--as it once was when the Cuyahoga River caught fire,
Kepone poisoned the James River, children in the inner city suffered retardation from lead in gasoline, and we believed that PCBs and other chlorinated organics were causing wide-spread sterility in the animal kingdom and otherwise destroying nature.
The production of the insecticide
kepone, invented by Allied in 1966, had been licensed to Life Science Products Co., a Hopewell, Virginia-based company founded by two former Allied employees.
"Avoidance Costs Associated with Imperfect Information: The Case of
Kepone." Land Economics, 57, 1981, 139-50.
(29) In this case, the taxpayer pled nolo contendere to a 1,940-count indictment for waste and water pollution resulting from its manufacturing of
Kepone. The trial judge imposed a fine of $13,240,000 but indicated he wanted the money used to help those persons harmed by the pollution.
DDT, aldrin, dieldrin, heptachlor, chlordane,
kepone, nonylphenol, and alkylbenzene sulfonate) have shown 'hockey-stick' shaped loss curves involving an initial stage of relatively rapid loss followed by little or no loss (Alexander 1995).
