Shell Chemical Company’s Aldrin used by the US government to attack the Japanese beetle in the Midwest
In 1950, Shell Chemical Company’s Aldrin, one of the deadliest chemicals available, was used by the U.S. government to attack the Japanese beetle in the Midwest, replacing the bacterial insecticides that had been used earlier in the northeast.
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Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Credit: Report of the Aldrin/Dieldrin Advisory Committee to William D. Ruckelshaus, Administrator, EPA, March 28, 1972.
