Organochlorine compounds such as DDT, lindane and aldrin are agricultural and public health pesticides that persist in the environment and accumulate in fatty tissues of living organisms. In Kenya, the chemicals were widely ...

Pesticide residues in human milk were first reported in 1951 by Laug et aI., who found that the milk from normal and healthy black American women contained considerable amounts of the organochlorine insecticide DDT. Since ...