POPS PRODUCERS
POPs
PESTICIDES
Table 1. Production data for the UNEP POPs pesticides (adapted from
Vancouver 1995, ATSDR 1997).
|
Organochlorine
Pesticides
|
Intial
Producer
|
Year
of Introduction
|
Global
Use
(tonnes)
|
| Aldrin
and Dieldrin |
Shell
|
1948-50
|
>
130,000 |
| Endrin |
Velsicol
and Shell
|
|
>
2,300 |
| Chlordane |
Velsico
|
1947
|
>150,000
(1950-1992) |
| DDT |
Ciba-Geigy
|
1946
|
3,000,000
|
| HCB |
|
1945
|
>
100,000
As By-Product
600- 6,000 |
| Heptachlor |
Velsicol
|
1952
|
n/a |
| Mirex |
Allied
Chemical Co.
|
1946
|
n/a |
| |
Hooker
Chemical
|
1958-9
|
>
1,500 |
| Toxaphene |
Hercules
Powder Co.
|
1946
|
1,333,000 |
|