Description
This book evaluates the risks to human health and the environment posed by exposure to isobenzan. This cyclodiene insecticide was manufactured in the Netherlands from 1958 to 1965 and used from existing stocks for several years thereafter. Present sources of human and environmental exposure are restricted to the original waste-disposal sites and to polders which were built up using mud dredged from contaminated harbour areas. Despite the limited number of studies, the report concludes that isobenzan poses a significant hazard to the environment and to exposed workers, and that no human or environmental exposure to this substance, whether used as an insecticide or for any other purpose, should be allowed.
