Methoxychlor
Methoxychlor is used as
an insecticide effective against pests. There’s a wide range of uses of methoxychlor,
from being used on field crops to killing parasites. However, all pesticide use
of methoxychlor was suspended in 2000. According to oral study in animals, the
exposure of methoxychlor resulted in effects to the liver, kidneys, and nervous
system. Moreover, the reproductive and developmental effects are the major
concern of methoxychlor. Developmental and reproductive effects include
abortions, reduced fertility, reduced litter size, and skeletal effects. The
exposure to methoxychlor would most likely be from inhalation or dermal contact
by workers involved in the manufacture, handling, or application of
methoxychlor. Humans could be exposed to methoxychlor at home by ingesting food
or water contaminated with methoxychlor. EPA has low confidence in
the dangerous study of methoxychlor because no inferences could be made to the maternal or
developmental toxicity of methoxychlor due to the low sureness in the database because of the lack of definitive chronic toxicity. EPA has
classified methoxychlor as a Group D, because human data are unavailable and animal evidence is indecisive.
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