Please view this very interesting article, and listen to the embedded audio on MedPage Today.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/DDW/14428
Researchers found good correlation between blood levels of heptachlor and Dieldrin.
Quoting the article:
Higher levels of two organochlorine pesticides banned in the U.S. for almost all purposes since the 1970s and 1980s, dieldrin (P=0.027) and heptachlor epoxide (P=0.009), were also significantly associated […]

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Silverwood Lake, a water reservoir for southern California contains “surprising” amounts of PCBs:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/25/AR2009052502402.html?hpid=sec-world
The only real surprise is that health officials are surprised to find PCBs in waters anywhere in the U.S. They come into our waters through contaminated air and ALL our waters have PCBs in them and will have until PCBs are globally banned.
I’m […]

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That’s the title of a lot of articles, including this one from Traverse City:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j_FeqEyAFrwvHxSZaAewM2n8MXkgD986K8QO6
Would somebody please tell him that Lake Superior, with its high levels of foreign sourced toxaphene, produces the most toxic fish in the Great Lakes and that dredging sediments will do NOTHING for  Lake Superior or even for the open water quality […]

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 From the Toronto Globe and Mail:
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/homes_property/article02/indexn2_html?pdate=040509&ptitle=Stockholm%20Convention%20meets%20over%20new%20ban%20on%20organic%20pollutants
The Stockholm Convention is meeting with the agenda below. It is good to see that they are thinking of seeing if PCBs are really declining. After eight years and nobody is checking progress? There is no indication that PCBs, chlordane, or toxaphene are reducing in global use. Why would poor […]

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That is the title of the article at: http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/04/30-12
It is posted by an organization called Common Dreams and addresses the upcoming Stockholm Convention meetings to discuss the banning of Lindane and other chemicals under the Stockholm Agreement of 2001. The U.S. is a “powerful observer” at these discussions, even though the U.S.Senate has not ratified […]

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