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"Aldrin and dieldrin were banned in 1975, although aldrin was allowed as a termite poison until 1987. Aldrin converts to dieldrin in soil and inside our tissues. dieldrin suppresses the immune system and produces abnormal brain waves in mammals. As late as 1986, dieldrin was still turning up in milk supplies because the soils of hay-fields sprayed more than a decade earlier remained contaminated. Most agricultural uses of chlordane in the United States were ended in 1980 and heptachlor in 1983. Both have been linked to leukemia and certain childhood cancers." - Sandra Steingraber, Living Downstream (Get the book.)

"Others remain at large. dieldrin is such a persistent pesticide that some scientists predict it will still exist in the environment when humans are extinct. Methyl bromide causes respiratory illnesses, convulsions and acute mania, alongside intensely depleting ozone levels, yet U.S. agribusiness forces have managed repeatedly to delay its banning, citing emergency "critical uses" stipulations in the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. Supposed to be totally eliminated by 2005, it is still used on strawberries. Mass sprayings of Round Up?" - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"PCBs, along with dioxin, DDT, and dieldrin, are among the most toxic chemicals on the planet. According to John Culhane, in his 1980 article "PCBs: The Poisons That Won't Go Away," only a few parts per billion of these substances can cause cancer and birth defects in lab animals.19 The tenth annual Council on Environmental Quality, sponsored by the U.S. government, reported PCBs in 100 percent of all human sperm samples." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"A carcinogenic (meaning "cancer-causing") pesticide, dieldrin was taken off 127 the market in 1974, but it carries as much risk as other chemicals still in use, because it takes decades to disappear from the soil. dieldrin also is absorbed into the pulp of vegetables. Root crops, such as potatoes, and vine crops, such as cucumbers, squash, and melons, are particularly susceptible to absorbing dieldrin. This chemical poses a definite health risk. A study published in 1976 in Denmark found that women with higher levels of the pesticide dieldrin in their blood had a greater risk of breast cancer." - Sharon Moore, Lupus: Alternative Therapies That Work (Get the book.) "The third-worst chemical, according to Consumers Union, is dieldrin. A carcinogenic (meaning "cancer-causing") pesticide, dieldrin was taken off 127 the market in 1974, but it carries as much risk as other chemicals still in use, because it takes decades to disappear from the soil. dieldrin also is absorbed into the pulp of vegetables. Root crops, such as potatoes, and vine crops, such as cucumbers, squash, and melons, are particularly susceptible to absorbing dieldrin. This chemical poses a definite health risk." - Sharon Moore, Lupus: Alternative Therapies That Work (Get the book.)

"If you were born before 1974, you may have been exposed to dieldrin, a pesticide that was found in 96 percent of all meat and 85 percent of all dairy products tested in the United States. If you were born before 2004, you may have been exposed to diazinon, a toxin poisonous to the nervous system and sprayed on lawns and in gardens before its ban. There is reason to believe (and hope) that ultimately, the "pest" problem on farms may be solved not through the use of more potent pesticides but through restoration of optimal mineral balance to the soil in which crops are grown." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Other agents suspected of affecting the male reproductive system are benzene hexachlorides (lindane), DDT, methoxychlor, aldrin, chlordane, and dieldrin. Cancer Alert: Some of these chemicals have been found to be carcinogenic in laboratory animal studies. OSHA/NIOSH Standards: The OSHA standard (PEL) for aldrin/dieldrin is a TWA of 0.25 mg/m3; DDT, 1 mg/m3; kepone, none; and methoxychlor, 10 mg/m3. NIOSH considers aldrin/dieldrin an occupational carcinogen and recommends the lowest reliably detectable level and 0." - Arthur C. Upton, M.D., Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment: The New York University Medical Center Family Guide (Get the book.)

"When Weir and I wrote our book, we described Mexico as one of the primary markets for pesticides like chlordane, aldrin, dieldrin, and indeed, lindane. Today, it is the United States that is the market for a chemical that is banned in Mexico. The ironies around lindane abound, and offer a snapshot into how profoundly the United States has lost its former position of environmental leadership. The sole suppliers of lindane since the early part of this century have been the U.S. firm Chemtura, which markets it in bulk, and Gustafson Chemicals, which sells lindane-treated seeds." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"But when samples from around the world—some from stores in London and Edinburgh—were analyzed, it was discovered that levels of 14 "organochlorine" toxins, the most hazardous of which include PCBs, dioxins, dieldrin and toxaphene, were significantly higher in European and North American farm-raised salmon than in fish caught in the wild. According to U.S. and Canadian scientists and reported by the journal Science, fishmeal was traced as the source of most of these poisons. New research shows dioxins to cause breast cancer." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Kwell, Kildane, Scabene] and dieldrin [Dieldrite]) may contribute to the development of Parkinson's disease.7' 8'9 In California, death from Parkinson's disease increased by about 40% in all Californian counties reporting use of restricted agricultural pesticides since the 1970s compared with those reporting none.10 Avoiding contact with pesticides and pesticide residues may be an important preventive measure for Parkinson's and other diseases. Interestingly, consumption of the fat substitute olestra appears to increase elimination of certain organochlorine pesticides in the feces." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"Because many pesticides—including DDT, aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, and heptachlor—have demonstrated major toxicity and carcinogenicity, they have been banned in the United States. But we are still at risk from many of these banned pesticides because they are being used in developing countries. Mexico, for example, supplies an increasing amount of our produce and that country's farmers legally use many of these banned pesticides. Of the six hundred pesticides in current use, the EPA has identified sixty-four with cancer-causing potential." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"Aldrin converts to dieldrin in soil and inside our tissues. dieldrin suppresses the immune system and produces abnormal brain waves in mammals. As late as 1986, dieldrin was still turning up in milk supplies because the soils of hay-fields sprayed more than a decade earlier remained contaminated. Most agricultural uses of chlordane in the United States were ended in 1980 and heptachlor in 1983. Both have been linked to leukemia and certain childhood cancers." - Sandra Steingraber, Living Downstream (Get the book.)

"They include especially nasty agricultural pesticides like chlordane, dieldrin, and DDT, as well as PCBs and dioxins from industrial wastes and emissions. Although most of these chemicals have been discontinued or banned for years, they persist in the environment and thoroughly pollute streams, lakes, and oceans. PCBs cause the most concern so I will use this term as collective shorthand for the hundreds of such chemicals that contaminate commercial and sports fish. PCBs —and their relatives —are not likely to be good for you." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"GABA The organochlorine group of pesticides (lindane, dieldrin, and bicucullinne) kills bugs by interfering with GABA receptors, making them convulse to death. GABA is a neurotransmitter that calms the nervous system by inhibiting excitatory neurons. The brain becomes overexcited when GABA is deficient. The importance of the GABA system is emphasized by the fact that it is one of the earliest systems to develop in the fetal brain, usually by seven weeks. The number of GABA receptors increases sharply between eight and eleven weeks of development." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"When Weir and I wrote Circle of Poison twenty-five years ago, Bayer was one of the companies we identified as selling organochlorine pesticides like aldrin and dieldrin to Mexico and other developing countries, which it couldn't sell in the United States. Now many of those same chemicals are on the POPS list. In 2005, Bayer voluntarily withdrew lindane from the Mexican market in advance of that country's national ban taking effect." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"The facility formulated a variety of liquid and powdered pesticides, including some truly dangerous ones (now largely banned in the United States) such as chlordane, lindane, dieldrin, and aldrin. Soil samples indicated the presence of pesticides, benzene, toluene, xylene, chlordane, naphthalene, and metals. Groundwater samples contained metals, benzene, toluene, xylene, pesticides, trichlorethylene, and chlorobenzene." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"If The Hague had a list of chemical war criminals, the dozen POPS chemicals would be on it, including chlordane, heptachlor, aldrin, dieldrin, mirex, DDT, hexachlorobenzene, toxaphene, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxins, and furans. Twenty years ago the NGO Pesticide Action Network had dubbed these the world's "dirty dozen," and the name had stuck. All act like light switches of toxicity upon the human body —potent neurotoxins and carcinogens that most countries in the world had agreed to kick out of global commerce." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Fat-soluble Carcinogens in Hormonal Milk The fat and milk of cattle are contaminated with a wide range of carcinogens including pesticides, such as heptachlor epoxide and dieldrin, and xenobiotics, such as PCBs and tetrachlorodibenzodioxin. The lipolytic effect of hormonal treatment is likely to mobilize carcinogens from body fat and increase their milk levels, a matter of particular concern to young infants. For these reasons, levels of fat soluble carcinogens in hormonal milk should be determined." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"In the late 1940s and early 1950s the chemical corporations began pushing other highly chlorinated mixtures, the cyclodienes, which included toxaphene and the "drins" (aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, endosulfan, and endothal). These were also highly toxic and caused extensive chronic illnesses.7 Toward the end of World War II the Allies disclosed more results of I. G. Farben's organophosphate research. By 1947 American Cyanamid had used the cartel's discoveries to develop parathion and followed three years later with malathion." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) "Like DDT and the other chlorinated hydrocarbons, the cyclodienes (including toxaphene, aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, endosulfan, and endothal) experienced serious resistance problems, which meant to the farmer that the pesticide he depended on did not kill the pests anymore and that he had wasted his pest control budget. The failure to kill pests certainly accounts for some early registration cancellations in the United States, when projected sales wouldn't justify defending it. But as one chemical from this deadly family failed another was trotted out to replace its lost cousin." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.) "Among them were DDT, 2,4,5-T, dieldrin, endrin, aldrin, most of the arsenic pesticides, and several bromines. The chemical corporations that invested heavily in genetically modified organisms needed to make promises to large-scale farmers to keep their place in the market, since their long-term advertising strategy was based on convincing growers that they consistently manufactured some of the most advanced pest-control and fertilizer products. Whether by design or because of the excess zeal of the publishers, the press got out in front of the research." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Most hot dogs also contain benzene, dacthal, dieldrin, lindane, hormones, and many other potentially harmful ingredients such as antibiotics which do not have to be listed on the package. "They" are not telling us "the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," about what's in these meats because there is no law that says "they" have to provide this information. Chemical additives are allowed by our food and drug laws to be combined and listed on labels as, believe it or not, "natural flavors," and so forth." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"Toxic Chlorinated Compounds include Aldrin, alpha-BHC, DDD, DDE, DDT, dieldrin, Endrin, HCB, Heptachlor (and epoxide), Lindane, Methoxychlor, and Mirex. Daminozide Promotes red coloring on apples, holds the fruit on the trees longer, increases storage life by 3 months; residues on apples (cider and sauce), peanuts (butter), and grapes (je\\y) breaks down the intestines to UDMH, promotes cancer tumors. DBCP Dibromochloropropane pesticide destroys male fertility. Take Vitamin E and Calcium. DDTandDieldrin Toxic pesticides used from 1945 to 1950 in the United States." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

"Fat-Soluble Carcinogens in Hormonal Milk The fat and milk of cattle are contaminated with a wide range of carcinogens, including pesticides such as heptachlor epoxide and dieldrin and xenobiotics such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and tetrachlo-rodibenzodioxin. The lipolytic effect of hormonal treatment is likely to mobilize carcinogens from body fat and increase their milk levels, a matter of particular concern to young infants. For these reasons, possible incremental levels of fat-soluble carcinogens in hormonal milk should be determined." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"Farm-raised salmon contains higher levels of petroleum-derived organochlorines—such as poly-chlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), toxaphene, dieldrin, dioxins, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs)—than their wild counterparts, according to a study in the January 9, 2004, issue of the prestigious journal Science.2>3 "Having analyzed over 2 metric tons of farmed and wild salmon from around the world for organochlorine contaminants, we show that concentrations of these contaminants are significandy higher in farmed salmon than in wild," said the article. " - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Organochlorides for DDT, dieldrin, chlordane, lindane and endosulfans. 2. Organophosphates for diazanon, malathion and parathion. Mevinphos, Dursban (chlorpyrifos). 3. Volatile or Gaseous Aromatic Solvents for benzene, toluene, xylene, styrene or ketone solvents. 4. Aliphatic Volatile Solvents for pentane, hexane and butane. 5. Chlorinated compounds, for phenoxy herbicides such as 2,4-D, 2,4,5- T. 6. Polychlorinated biphenols or PCB's. 7. Pentachlorophenol or PCP. 8. Paradichlorobenzene for mothballs. 9. Triazine herbicides for atrazine in fertilizer and herbicides. 10." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.) "There is evidence suggesting the remaining 40% can be linked to estrogen-mimicking pesticides, such as dieldrin.36"38 Possible Chemical Causes of Breast Cancer1 Breast cancer is supposedly five times more common in women who have the organochloride, DDT, in some form in their blood or stored in their breast fat. It is reported to be seven times more common if the fungicide, HCB (hexachlorobenzene), is in that tissue. The scientists are correct, that this does not conclusively prove a cause and effect relationship but it does suggest there is a connection." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.) "In spite of banning several organochloride pesticides in the 1970s, these pesticides ( DDT and dieldrin) along with others, continue to show up in many of the foods that children and adults eat. In part, this is because these chemicals were stockpiled by the farmers and because crops are grown in tainted pesticide-contaminated soil.34 Atrazine is the most frequently used herbicide in our country and it is used primarily on corn, sorghum, sugar cane and pineapple.88a-b'147 It can remain in the soil for several years. It is often used along with paraquat, another most dangerous chemical." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.) "This was found even though years before, in 1987, dieldrin had been banned as hazardous. In addition, many had chlordane in their blood even though this was banned in about 1988. Their food similarly contained elevated levels of these same pesticides. This means we have probably contaminated our farm soil and this could have serious long-term implications in relation to the health of children and adults. Banning helps but repeated evidence shows it certainly is not providing adequate protection." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

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