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China’s support of DDE is filling a void left by other countries, adds Robert Hazen, a mineralogist at the Carnegie Institution for Science who is a DDE grantee.
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Paul Voosen, science.org, 3 July 2024
Testing also revealed trace amounts of DDE, a breakdown product of DDT, an insecticide banned in the United States in 1972.
—Lauren Oster, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
In addition, the unruly owl experienced exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides, DDE, a compound of chemicals that are used to kill rodents within New York City, the necropsy said.
—USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
Toxicology tests also revealed trace amounts of DDE, a breakdown product of the pesticide DDT, which has been banned in the United States since the early 1970s.
—Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Toxicology testing also revealed trace amounts of DDE, a breakdown product of the pesticide DDT, the WCS said.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 25 Mar. 2024
However, studies have focused on ingestion of the chemical, such as by eating fruit contaminated with pesticide residue; less is known about the effects of inhaling DDE.
—Gene Johnson, ajc, 8 Apr. 2023
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Paul Voosen, science.org, 3 July 2024
Testing also revealed trace amounts of DDE, a breakdown product of DDT, an insecticide banned in the United States in 1972.
—Lauren Oster, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
In addition, the unruly owl experienced exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides, DDE, a compound of chemicals that are used to kill rodents within New York City, the necropsy said.
—USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
Toxicology tests also revealed trace amounts of DDE, a breakdown product of the pesticide DDT, which has been banned in the United States since the early 1970s.
—Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Toxicology testing also revealed trace amounts of DDE, a breakdown product of the pesticide DDT, the WCS said.
—Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 25 Mar. 2024
However, studies have focused on ingestion of the chemical, such as by eating fruit contaminated with pesticide residue; less is known about the effects of inhaling DDE.
—Gene Johnson, ajc, 8 Apr. 2023
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DDE
noun
: a persistent organochlorine C15H8Cl4 that is produced by the metabolic breakdown of DDT
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