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Within this sequence, contamination in the sediment increased 10-fold for the pesticide hexachlorobenzene and 25-fold for mercury. To the dismay of Beyond Pesticides, penta's revised risk assessment neglects to take into account two highly hazardous constitutents: dioxins and hexachlorobenzene (HCB). An epidemic in Turkey between 1955 and 1961 of severe poisoning by the grain fumigant hexachlorobenzene (HCB) resulted in the death of every newborn child in the affected region that was breastfed. |
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