(CN) --- In the first report on the health effects of the infamous insecticide DDT over three generations, exposure of the chemical has been linked to two breast cancer risk factors in granddaughters.
In 1969, Congress passed the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Cancer Institute announced its findings that DDT could produce cancer. By then, individual states had started to ban ...
By publication day, September 27, 1962, advance sales total 190,000 copies. Carson dies from cancer in the spring of 1964. The government finally bans DDT, 10 years after Silent Spring is published.
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