What are the health effects associated with DDT?
DDT affects the nervous system. People who accidentally swallowed large amounts of DDT became excitable and had tremors and seizures. These effects went away after the exposure stopped. No effects were seen in people who took small daily doses of DDT by capsule for 18 months. A study in humans showed that women who had high amounts of a form of DDE in their breast milk were unable to breast feed their babies for as long as women who had little DDE in the breast milk. Another study in humans showed that women who had high amounts of DDE in breast milk had an increased chance of having premature babies. Chlordane What is Chlordane? Chlordane is a manufactured chemical that was used as a pesticide in the United States from 1948 to 1988. Chlordane is not a single chemical, but is actually a mixture of pure chlordane mixed with many related chemicals. Chlordane does not occur naturally in the environment. Because of concern about damage to the environment and harm to human health, the EPA b
