“…This class includes organochloride pesticides such as aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, chlordane, heptachlor and DDT (Ahmad et al, 1988), as well as polychlorinated biphenyls (Ahmad et al, 1988;Lordo, 1996), polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzo-furans (Byard, 1987). Moreover, a variety of other halogenated organic compounds are known to accumulate in fat tissue (Ahmad et al, 1988). This tissue accumulation is related to the lipophilicity of the compounds and the low perfusion rate of adipose tissue, although studies in Di Francesco and Bickel (1985) and Minder (1994) suggest that the tissue distribution of lipophilic compounds is also dependent on binding competition between fat tissue and well-perfused lean tissues.…”