DDT Debate
http://www.sciam.com/news/120400/3.html Scientific American Summary: In attempts to control this mosquito-borne killer, many countries still use DDT, spraying houses with the insecticide. Some researchers, however, have argued that exposing humans to DDT poses health risks. Moreover, they report, the public health benefits vastly outweigh DDT’s purported health risks, which have never been proved. DDT Debate, Scientific American
TB & Outbreaks Week, Dec. 19, 2000 (Ref. Potter Library, infotrac.galegroup.com) Should DDT Be Banned in the Fight Against Mosquitoes?
The Lancet, July 22, 2000 v356 i9226 p267 How toxic is DDT? (Commentary)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included) A G Smith.
http://enn.com/news/enn-stories/2000/08/08172000/westnile_30596.asp ENN Environmental Network News Choose Your Poison — Pesticides or West Nile virus
Alternatives Journal, Fall 2000 v26 i4 p10 (Potter Library, infotrac.galegroup.com) Persistence versus Persistents
http://www.duke.edu/~chb7/Index.html Duke University; Properties, Politics and Policy
http://www.safe2use.net/ca-ipm/00-10-19c.htm Political issues concerning pesticides
http://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/ Bill Moyer’s PBS special
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/roosevelt/silentspring/ Ramapo College of New Jersey: MSET Web Quest: DDT To Ban or Not to Ban
http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/ddt/01.htm U.S. EPA History Office DDT Ban Takes Effect; December 31, 1972
The Debate BMJ British Medical Journal. The BMJ aims to help doctors everywhere practise better medicine and to influence the debate on health. To achieve these aims we publish original scientific studies, review and educational articles, and papers commenting on the clinical, scientific, social, political, and economic factors affecting health. Ethical debate Doctoring malaria, badly: the global campaign to ban DDT
http://www.ncpa.org/pi/enviro/pd072800b.html DDT: A Lifesaving Pesticide If environmental activists have their way, DDT — the most effective mosquito-control agent known — will soon be banned from the planet. For nearly 30 years, DDT has been banned from America’s arsenal of pesticides because of environmental concerns. And the United Nations Environmental Program is now sponsoring a legally binding convention for a worldwide ban on DDT.
DDT Montrose The state of California and the U.S. Justice Department have reached a tentative settlement with Montrose Chemical Corp. to settle a 10-year old natural resources lawsuit. Montrose was accused of dumping the pesticide DDT into sewers that empty into the Pacific Ocean a mile or two from Montrose’s southern California factory.
World Health Organization:
Home Page http://www.who.int/ go to : Information Resources (more information) World Health Report; search DDT or pesticides;
http://www.who.int/inf-pr-2000/en/pr2000-15.html PR-2000-15/ Time limited exemptions and financial support are critical to sustainable reductions in the use of DDT Press Release WHO/15 17 March 2000 TIME LIMITED EXEMPTIONS AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT ARE CRITICAL TO SUSTAINABLE REDUCTIONS IN THE USE OF DDT “A universal ban on DDT now must include time-limited exemptions for its production and use in malaria control. Otherw … 10710 bytes; modified: Saturday, March 18, 2000 (03:09)
http://www.who.int/inf-pr-2000/en/note2000-15.html NOTE-2000-15/DDT use in Malaria prevention and control
Note for the Press No 15 28 November 2000 DDT USE IN MALARIA PREVENTION AND CONTROL DDT still has an important role to play in saving lives and reducing the burden of malaria in some of the world’s poorest countries, states the World Health Organization (W 9441 bytes; modified: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 (15:09)
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