Toxaphene, a Complex Mixture of Polychloroterpenes and a Major Insecticide, Is Mutagenic
Abstract
Toxaphene, the most widely used chlorinated insecticide, is mutagenic in the Salmonella test without requiring liver homogenate for activity. This insecticide is a complex mixture (more than 177 polychloroterpenes) with carcinogenic activity in rodents. Some but not all of the mutagenic components are easily separated from the insecticidal ingredients.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- August 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.377495
- Bibcode:
- 1979Sci...205..591H