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Why did the United States ban the use of DDT?

Answer 1

To control the use of DDT and other persistent organic pollutants used around the world, United Nations Environment Programme negotiated a treaty enact global bans. This treaty is kbown as Stockholm Convention on POPs. The Convention includes a limited exemption for the use of DDT to control mosquitoes that transmit the microbe that causes malaria.

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Quetion :- Why did the United States ban the use of DDT?

Answer :- DDT was used in the second half of World War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops. ... Its publication was a seminal event for the environmental movement and resulted in a large public outcry that eventually led, in 1972, to a ban on DDT's agricultural use in the United States.

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