Word: ddt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Indeed, the law is currently up for reauthorization in Congress, and property owners and developers are working hard to have it weakened. The law is unfair to their business interests, they say. Besides, they insist, the eagle's comeback has much more to do with the 1972 banning of DDT, which weakened the shells of birds' eggs, and with increased public awareness of the eagle's plight than with the law itself...
...Contrary to earlier findings, a large-scale study shows no association between the pesticide DDT and breast cancer...
...DDT from Abroad...
Though banned in the U.S. more than 20 years ago, the pesticide DDT is still accumulating here. Yale researchers who studied New England forests say winds deliver DDT from countries as remote as India that continue...
...women in whom breast cancer had recently been discovered. Then they analyzed the blood of 171 women who had similar medical histories but no cancer. On average, the cancer patients had 35% more residue in their blood. Although the results are preliminary, the team believes that the association between DDT and breast cancer bears further investigation...