CAS Number
8001-35-2
Properties
- yellow, highly viscous, waxy substance
- mixture of several chlorinated bornanes and bornenes, dihydrocamphenes and camphenes
- is a persistent organic pollutant
Main sources
- agriculture: contact insecticide (cotton, cereal, fruit, nut, vegetable crops)
Thresholds for the reporting requirement of facilities in accordance with Annex 2 PRTRO
(Ordinance on the Register relating to Pollutant Release and the Transfer of Waste and of Pollutants in Waste Water)
- Air 1 kg/year
- Water 1 kg/year
- Soil 1 kg/year
Impacts
- suspected carcinogenic effect
- estrogenic effect
- accumulate in the fatty tissue of marine mammals
- widely dispersed in the environment
Measures
- banned since the Stockholm Convention came into force in 2004
