Endosulfan is an off-patent organochlorine insecticide and acaricide that is being phased out globally.
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16 Facts About Endosulfan
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Endosulfan has been used in agriculture around the world to control insect pests including whiteflies, aphids, leafhoppers, Colorado potato beetles and cabbage worms.
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Endosulfan is a derivative of hexachlorocyclopentadiene, and is chemically similar to aldrin, chlordane, and heptachlor.
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Endosulfan is alleged to be responsible for many fatal pesticide poisoning incidents around the world by NGOs opposing pesticide usage.
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Endosulfan is a xenoestrogen—a synthetic substance that imitates or enhances the effect of estrogens—and it can act as an endocrine disruptor, causing reproductive and developmental damage in both animals and humans.
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Endosulfan is acutely neurotoxic to both insects and mammals, including humans.
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Endosulfan has shown to affect crustacean molt cycles, which are important biological and endocrine-controlled physiological processes essential for the crustacean growth and reproduction.
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Endosulfan was the only pesticide applied to cashew plantations in the villages for 20 years, and had contaminated the village environment.
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Endosulfan is not listed as known, probable, or possible carcinogen by the EPA, IARC, or other agencies.
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Endosulfan is subject to long-range atmospheric transport, i e it can travel long distances from where it is used.
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Endosulfan has been found in remote locations such as the Arctic Ocean, as well as in the Antarctic atmosphere.
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Rajendra Singh Rana has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding the withdrawal of the National Institute of Occupational Health study on Endosulfan titled "Report Of The Investigation Of Unusual Illness" allegedly produced by the Endosulfan exposure in Padre village of Kasargod district in north Kerala.
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Endosulfan was a part of the delegation with Bhavnagar MP, Rajendra Singh Rana, which submitted a memorandum to the district collector's office to withdraw the NIOH report calling for ban of endosulfan.
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Endosulfan was banned in New Zealand by the Environmental Risk Management Authority effective January 2009 after a concerted campaign by environmental groups and the Green Party.
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Endosulfan is classified as a "Severe Marine Pollutant" by the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code.
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