Abstract
THE concentrations of organochlorine insecticides in various foodstuffs1–3 and in whole prepared meals4,5 have been closely studied in Great Britain; similar surveys are also in hand in the United States6,7. A survey during the period March 1965 to March 1966 of food, representative of the average intake of the various dietary items, prepared and cooked, from an industrial canteen in south-eastern England, indicated that the average daily intake of HEOD (1,2,3,4,10,10-hexachloro-6,7-epoxy-1,4,4a,5,6,7,8,8a-octahydro - exo-1,4-endo-5,8-dimethano-naphthalene; dieldrin contains not less than 85 per cent HEOD), consequent on ingestion of residues in that food, was about 20 µg/day (ref. 5). A similar survey was made of samples collected in 1967, and the amounts of HEOD found in this second survey are presented here.
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MCGILL, A., ROBINSON, J. & STEIN, M. Residues of Dieldrin (HEOD) in Complete Prepared Meals in Great Britain during 1967. Nature 221, 761–762 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/221761a0
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