JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
    • العربية
    • 中文
    • English
    • français
    • русский
    • español
    • Deutsch
    • português
English
  • العربية
  • 中文
  • English
  • français
  • русский
  • español
  • Deutsch
  • português
  • Home
  • Contact
  • Help

Browse

All of IRISCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

Statistics

Most PopularBy Country

Related Links

WPRO IRISPAHO IRIS

Endrin / published under the joint sponsorship of the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Labour Organisation, and the World Health Organization

Thumbnail
View/Open
WHO_EHC_130_eng.pdf (‎9.122Mb)‎
View Statistics
Show Statistical Information
Altmetrics
Share
Abstract
Evaluates the risks to human health and the environment posed by endrin, an organochlorine insecticide used since the 1950s to protect cotton, rice, sugar cane, maize, and other crops against a wide range of agricultural pests. Because of its high toxicity and persistence in the environment, endrin has been banned in many countries and severely restricted in others. Ingestion of contaminated food is determined to be the most important route of human exposure. A review of levels of endrin detected in the environment, in animals, in food, and in exposed humans draws upon a large number of older studies conducted when endrin was much more widely used than at present. Findings from these studies, which document widespread contamination, indicate the health and environmental consequences arising from the indiscriminate use and disposal of this highly toxic pesticide. Reports of fish kills linked to the use of endrin confirm its environmental hazards, which have also been documented for other species. Other sections review findings from experimental investigations of toxicity, case reports of accidental and suicidal poisoning, and epidemiological studies of occupationally exposed workers. Findings consistently point to the neurotoxicity of this pesticide and the rapid onset f convulsions following exposure. The report concludes that endrin is unlikely to present a hazard to exposed workers where good work practices and recommended safety precautions are enforced. The occasional presence of low levels of endrin in air, food, and surface and drinking-water is judged to be of little public health significance. Because of the high toxicity of this pesticide, the report recommends that endrin should be used only in cases where no less toxic alternative is available. The report closes with advice on the medical treatment of endrin poisoning and on the emergency management of major status epilepticus
Citation
World Health Organization & International Programme on Chemical Safety. (‎1992)‎. Endrin / published under the joint sponsorship of the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Labour Organisation, and the World Health Organization. Geneva : World Health Organization. http://www.who.int/iris/handle/10665/40134
Relation
Environmental health criteria ; 130
Description
241 p.
English with summaries in French and Spanish
ISBN
9241571306
Collections
  • Publications
Language
English
Metadata
Show full item record

Show Statistical Information

View Item 
  • IRIS Home
  • 1. Headquarters
  • Publications
  • View Item
  • IRIS Home
  • 1. Headquarters
  • Publications
  • View Item

© WHO 2017