Aldrin, USSR

Each pesticide used in the USSR had the same history permit, realization that a mistake was made, ban. The only variable in all of these histories was the length of time required to understand that a mistake had been made when the permit was issued. When removing the pesticide from circulation, officials dted several reasons wen/ high toxicity (aldrin, dieldrin, parathion, demeton,... 

Pesticides, and especially OCPs (DDT and its metabolytes, HCH isomers, aldrine, dieldrin, heptachlor, etc.), are seen everywhere in mammals. Table 4.7 gives data on the death of higher vertebrates from causes linked to agricultural production in the USSR. About 40% of the accidental deaths of animals, and about 80% of birds, are due to pesticides. It is difficult to evaluate how many mammals in the environment die from pesticide contamination, since sick and weakened individuals fall prey to predators [6]. 

Rachel Carson s book Silent Spring that was published in 1962 was the first popular work to bring the uncontrolled environmental contamination by pesticides to public attention. Well-publicized and well-organized campaigns were mounted in several countries to prohibit the use of DDT and other persistent chlorinated insecticides such as Aldrin and heptachlor. Governments in many developed countries like USA, UK, Italy, USSR, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, proclaimed bans on DDT or severely restricted its use around 1960-1970. 

Based on scientific data, pesticides that exhibit human and environmental hazards can be forbidden in the USSR, although they may be reconunended by agricultural groups or widely used in other countries. Banned organophosphate pesticides are thimet, azinphos-methyl, dialiphos, dicrotophos, isofenphos, Ultracide and Nemacur organochlorines, aldrin, dieldrin, endrin and isodrin carbamates, Temik and dioxicarb dithiocarbamates, ziram and maneb and bipyridiliums, paraquat (selective pulmotropic action). 

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