ABSTRACT
Pesticides and herbicides are considered as one of the main factors involved in environmental contamination of world and are one of the prime generators of chemical sensitivity and chronic degenerative disease. Organochlorines, organophosphates, carbamate, pyrethrins, pyrethroid, and many other pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides can trigger and propagate chemical sensitivity and or chronic degenerative disease. Photolysis can produce compounds of greater toxicity than the original pesticides as can exposure to nonionizing radiation. The incidence of pesticide sensitivity in the chemically sensitive must be much higher. Pesticide families include pentachlorophenol, nitrophenolic herbicides, chlorophenoxy compounds, paraquat, diquat, thiocarbamates and dithiocarbamates, and others. Endosulfan is a pesticide similar to dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). Chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides are used worldwide for agriculture purposes, with the DDT family being the best known of a large number of related compounds. Organochlorine pesticides have been generally phased out in the United States. Pesticides may contribute to myocardial infarction risk among farm women.
