A polychlorinated pesticide that is resistant to destruction by light and oxidation. Its unusual stability has resulted in difficulties in residue removal from water, soil, and foodstuffs. This substance may reasonably be anticipated to be a carcinogen: Fourth Annual Report on Carcinogens (NTP-85-002, 1985). (From Merck Index, 11th ed)
    

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Malaria: spraying a workers' settlement with DDT and benzine hexachloride (lindane) to kill the mosquitoes. Colour lithograph after A.D. Polumordvinov and others, 1953.

I am a Cox's D.D.T. parrot : perch me in your room and I will kill all those flies / [James Cox & Co.].

War and nature : fighting humans and insects with chemicals from World War I to Silent spring / Edmund Russell.

The mosquito bites back.

Noah's Ark regd series D.D.T. fly & moth cards : mother - don't let baby chew this / F. W. Hampshire & Co. Ltd.

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I am a Cox's D.D.T. parrot : perch me in your room and I will kill all those flies / [James Cox & Co.].

Malaria: spraying a workers' settlement with DDT and benzine hexachloride (lindane) to kill the mosquitoes. Colour lithograph after A.D. Polumordvinov and others, 1953.

War and nature : fighting humans and insects with chemicals from World War I to Silent spring / Edmund Russell.

The mosquito bites back.

Noah's Ark regd series D.D.T. fly & moth cards : mother - don't let baby chew this / F. W. Hampshire & Co. Ltd.