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Chlordecone, better known in the United States under the brand name Kepone, is an organochlorine compound and a colourless solid. It is an obsolete insecticide, now prohibited in the western world, but only after many thousands of tonnes had been produced and used.
Este pesticida fue sintetizado por primera vez en 1951, un año más tarde la sustancia fue patentada y finalmente su introducción comercial fue en 1958 en Estados Unidos por Allied Chemical bajo la denominación comercial de Kepone® y GC-1189.
14 de sept. de 2021 · Kepone, also known as chlordecone, is a toxic, nonbiodegradable insecticide that a chemical plant in Hopewell, Virginia dumped into the James River from 1966 until 1975.
5 de feb. de 2022 · Chlordecone (CD; Kepone™) is a carcinogenic organochlorine insecticide with neurological, reproductive, and developmental toxicity that was widely used in the French West Indies (FWI) from 1973 to 1993 to fight banana weevils.
- Claude Emond, Luc Multigner
- Arch Toxicol. 2022; 96(4): 1009-1019.
- 10.1007/s00204-022-03231-3
- 2022
18 de mar. de 2023 · For more than 40 years, two French territories in the Americas, Martinique and Guadeloupe, have been confronted with one of the biggest environmental scandals in Caribbean history due to the use of an organochlorine pesticide, chlordecone (also known under the brand name Kepone), in banana plantations. Although banned from use in the ...
19 de feb. de 2024 · Una plantación de plátanos en Martinica. Los agricultores usaban clordecona para proteger las plantaciones contra la invasión del picudo del plátano. Eddie Stok. En la isla, alrededor del 90% ...
Production of chlordecone was stopped in the United States - where it was marketed as Kepone - as far back as 1975, after workers at a factory producing it in Virginia complained of...
