Unsafe at any Dose? Diagnosing Chemical Safety Failures, from DDT to BPA

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/unsafe-at-any-dose-
diagnosing-chemical-safety-failures-from-ddt-to-bpa/

By Jonathan Latham

Time and again, synthetic chemicals have been banned or withdrawn only to be replaced by others that are equally harmful, and sometimes are worse. Neonicotinoids, which the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) credits with creating a global ecological catastrophe, are modern replacements for long-targeted organophosphate pesticides. Organophosphates had previously supplanted DDT and the other organochlorine pesticides from whose effects many bird species are only now recovering.