Word: endrin
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...ducks and geese, Environmental Protection Agency standards allow only a maximum daily intake level of 0.3 parts endrin per million. Tests in Montana showed concentrations up to four times greater than that. It looked like a solid case against hunting until the EPA chimed in to announce that its own standards provide a margin of safety "100 times higher" than the dosage that would affect a normal person. "A 60-lb. child could eat a whole teal and still be five times below the 'no effect' level," said an agency spokesman. To that, National Wildlife Federation Toxicologist George...
...Governor responded by asking the EPA to re-evaluate its policy on endrin use and petitioning Agency Administrator Anne Gorsuch for more money to monitor the problem in Montana. The state fish and game commission, meanwhile, conducted studies of toxin levels in 100 game fowl and announced that it would decide whether or not hunting could go on. Most hunters, busy polishing their shotguns and checking their decoys, would not comment on the situation...
Last Friday, after reviewing the test results, the commission announced its unanimous decision-and handed out a bit of additional culinary advice. On Oct. 3 the hunting season will open, except in eight eastern counties where the geese seem to be carrying particularly high levels of endrin. But pregnant women and nursing mothers all over the state were enjoined not to eat waterfowl, and everyone else was told to down no more than one duck or a pound of goose a week-or, at most, six ducks a year. As for preparation: pour off the meat drippings, discard the skin...
...grain itself is not toxic because endrin is sprayed only at the seedling stage, while only the tops of the mature plants are harvested. Birds, however, eat the seedlings...
...success prompted the introduction after World War II of a host of similar chlorine derivatives, including chlordane, heptachlor, aldrin, dieldrin, toxaphene and endrin. Wartime research on nerve gases also led to the development of a whole family of phosphorus-based insecticides, such as parathion, malathion and dimethoate, which, unlike DDT and other chlorine-based compounds, tended to break down more quickly into innocuous substances in the soil...