Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Synthetic Pesticides 9-5-07

THis is a very reliable website. It is from the UCSD webside. It was really interesting to find out information about DDT which is now banned. It was really bad for you and it increased preturn births and was bad for the enviornment. It was also making certian animals including the bald eagle die. "There are many classes of synthetic pesticides. The main classes consist of organochlorines, organophosphates, carbamates, and pyrethroids. Exposure to pesticides can cause acute (short term) or chronic (long term) effects on animals and humans, especially in the reproductive, endocrine, and central nervous systems." (Thuringiensis,website)

http://www.bt.ucsd.edu/synthetic_pesticide.html

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