Health dangers food chemicals, toxic

Organochlorine compounds are specially noxious chemicals to humans and animals, due to their high toxicity, persistence, and cumulative ability (in soil, sediments of river bottoms, and particles suspended in surface-waters) and particularly because of their solubility in oils and fats (e.g. of warm-blooded animals). Easy dissemination of these chemicals — by air with dust and soot particles, and by water through rivers and ocean currents — increases the danger of contamination for all living things in the natural environment. The persistence and cumulative ability of these chemicals as well as their penetration into the food chain, creates special hazards to human health. 

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