Agent Orange active ingredients

Carbonyl compounds are everywhere. Most biological molecules contain carbonyl groups, as do most pharmaceutical agents and many of the synthetic chemicals that touch our everyday lives. Citric acid, found in lemons and oranges acetaminophen, the active ingredient in many over-the-counter headache remedies and Dacron, the polyester material used in clothing, all contain different kinds of carbonyl groups. 

Even so, 2,4-D is advertised as being safe to humans when used as directed, and there is no evidence that the chemical bioaccumulates like DDT does, or that it has any immediate effects on human reproduction or human organs. Although 2,4-D made up nearly half of the active ingredient of Agent Orange, the controversial defoliant used in the Vietnam War, the stated problems with that compound were associated with the contaminant component, dioxin, not... 

Agent Orange was formulated to contain a 50 50 mixture of two active ingredients 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) and... 

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