POP

U.S. Regulatory Status under FIFRA and TSCS*

aldrin

• no US registrations, most uses canceled in 1969, all uses by 1987
• no production, import or export
• all tolerances on food crops revoked in 1986

chlordane

• no US registrations, most uses canceled in 1978, all uses by 1988
• no production (stopped in 1997), import or export

DDT

• no US registrations, most uses canceled in 1972, all by 1989
• no US production, import, or exports
• all tolerances on food and feed crops revoked in 1986

dieldrin

• no US registrations, most uses canceled in 1969, all uses by 1987
• no production, import, or export
• all tolerances on food crops revoked in 1986

endrin

• no US registrations, most uses canceled in 1979, all uses by 1984
• no production, import, or export

heptachlor

• most uses canceled by 1978, registrant voluntarily canceled use tocontrol fire ants in underground cable boxes in early 2000
• no production (stopped in 1997), import, or export
• all tolerances on food crops revoked in 1989

hexachloro-benzene(HCB)

• no US registrations as pesticide, all uses canceled by 1985
• no production, import, or export of HCB as pesticide• production as a chemical intermediate as allowed under the convention (TSCA)

mirex

• no U.S. registrations, all uses canceled by 1977
• no production, import, or export

PCBs

• manufacture and new use prohibited in 1978 (TSCA)

toxaphene

• no U.S. registrations, most uses canceled in 1982, all uses by 1990
• no production, import, or export
• all tolerances on food crops revoked in 1993