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Endrin: Environmental Health Criteria Series No 130
Endrin Environmental Health Criteria Series No 130 Author:ILO, UNEP Evaluates the risks to human health and the environment posed by endrin, an organochlo-rine insecticide used since the 1950s to protect cotton, rice, sugar cane, maize, and other crops against a wide range of agricultural pests. Because of its high toxicity and persistence in the environment, endrin has been banned in many countries and severely... more » restricted in others. Ingestion of contaminated food is the most important route of human exposure.« less