Extensive usage and health hazards caused by pesticide

Review on Endosulfan:

The pace of life is getting faster..! As we move faster in life, we have no time to even think over on matters that would affects us or even our children or the coming generations, though we hear voices for going green, environment protection, climate change and etc but are we really serious on these issues?

Recently there had been widespread news and coverage on the extensive usage and health hazards caused by pesticide called Endosulfan, Lets get to the never of the issues and understand the mayhem of Endosulfan, which is a categorized as a persistent organic pollutant (POP) as defined under the Stockholm convention. It is persistent in the environment, bio-accumulative, demonstrates long range environmental transport, causes adverse effects to human health and environment. Endosulfan is listed as persistent organic pollutant in the convention on Long range Transboundary Air Pollution and is recognized as a Persistent Toxic Substance by the United Nations Environment Programme.

History of Usage:

First registered for use in 1954, endosulfan is a broad-spectrum organo-chlorine insecticide. Following international recognition of their long-term negative impacts on the global environment, organochlorines including Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), and chlordane have been largely eliminated from use in global agriculture. Endosulfan remains the major exception and is still extensively applied to crops in India especially used extensively in plantation of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Assam and other states.

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