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    The document discusses bioaccumulation and biomagnification of toxins in food chains, with DDT as a specific example. It notes that non-biodegradable toxins like DDT accumulate in organisms over their lifetime through bioaccumulation. These toxins then magnify and increase in concentration at each level of the food chain through biomagnification. Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring highlighted how DDT was affecting bird populations by interfering with egg shell development. While DDT was banned in the US in 1972 due to these effects, the WHO now advocates for its limited use against malaria, which remains a controversial issue.

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    The document discusses bioaccumulation and biomagnification of toxins in food chains, with DDT as a specific example. It notes that non-biodegradable toxins like DDT accumulate in organisms over their lifetime through bioaccumulation. These toxins then magnify and increase in concentration at each level of the food chain through biomagnification. Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring highlighted how DDT was affecting bird populations by interfering with egg shell development. While DDT was banned in the US in 1972 due to these effects, the WHO now advocates for its limited use against malaria, which remains a controversial issue.

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    DDT & Malaria: Bioaccumulation & Biomagnification

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    The document discusses bioaccumulation and biomagnification of toxins in food chains, with DDT as a specific example. It notes that non-biodegradable toxins like DDT accumulate in organisms over their lifetime through bioaccumulation. These toxins then magnify and increase in concentration at each level of the food chain through biomagnification. Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring highlighted how DDT was affecting bird populations by interfering with egg shell development. While DDT was banned in the US in 1972 due to these effects, the WHO now advocates for its limited use against malaria, which remains a controversial issue.

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    DDT & Malaria

    Bioaccumulation & Biomagnification


    Bioaccumulation
    Non-biodegradable
    toxins can accumulate in
    the tissues of organisms
    When this happens over
    the lifespan of one
    organism it is called
    bioaccumulation
    Normally the toxins are
    fat soluble and build up
    in fatty tissue
    Biomagnification
    A non biodegradable toxin will
    be magnified in a food chain
    Primary consumers eat a small
    amount of the toxin

    Secondary consumers eat


    many 1° consumers and
    therefore have more toxin

    3° consumers eat many 2°


    consumers and thus contain
    even more toxin http://www.montereyinstitute.org/noaa/lesson1
    3/l13la1.html
    Rachel Carson and DDT
    Rachel Carson
    published Silent Spring
    in 1962
    highlighted the effect of
    the organochlorine
    pesticide, DDT on birds
    Predatory bird
    populations in USA
    were crashing as their
    egg shelves were not
    developing properly
    DDT and Malaria
    DDT was banned from
    use in the USA in 1972.
    More recently the WHO
    has advocated its limited
    use again due to its
    effectiveness against
    malaria
    This is very
    controversial

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