Abstract:have reported that it causes acute toxicity in rabbits equal to that caused by dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), a similar compound, in equivalent oral dosage (L.D.50), and that it causes greater chronic toxicity than does this similar compound because of greater cumulative action. Lehman 2 reported that toxicity in rats occurred after 12 weeks' administration of chlordane, 250 parts per million in the diet, the lowest intake causing gross demonstrable defects, whereas the toxic dose of dichlorodiphenyltr… Show more
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