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• Leaks of dibromochloropropane ( DBCP ) have caused sterility in men.
• Unfortunately, many of the users and purchasers of DBCP failed to follow the warning labels.
• Having completed the integration and rebranding exercise, Pierre & Vacances bought DBCP out of the partnership.
• Chiquita and Del Monte said they stopped using DBCP after it was banned by U . S . authorities.
• Dow then shipped half a million gallons of DBCP to Dole, much of it reclaimed from other users.
• DBCP was a liquid fumigant injected into the ground to kill microscopic worms that destroy the roots of banana trees.
• The son born before he began working with DBCP is now 23 and in his fifth year of studying marine biology.
• The U . S . Environmental Protection Agency discovered DBCP could cause cancer and sterility and severely restricted its use in 1977.
• Doris Cheung, a spokeswoman for Dow, said DBCP product labels warned users against skin contact and inhalation of its fumes.
• DBCP, a liquid fumigant, was injected into the ground to kill microscopic worms that destroy the roots of banana trees.
• The pesticide DBCP was banned in the United States in 1977 after studies showed it could cause blindness, sterility and cancer.
• Lagrimas, who worked as a pesticide applicator for Standard Fruit, said he and other workers used DBCP from 1979 to 1982.
• It was not until 1977 that the links between DBCP and sterility prompted restrictions on the chemical's use in the United States.
• Amid growing concerns over DBCP's effects on male workers, Dow ceased production and reclaimed DBCP that had been shipped to its users.
• Amid growing concerns over DBCP's effects on male workers, Dow ceased production and reclaimed DBCP that had been shipped to its users.
• Many growers, similarly, stopped buying the pesticides directly, but continued imposing the use of DBCP on banana plantations where they bought crops from local farmers.
• The Honduran government determined in April that the use of DBCP in plantations of Standard Fruit and Cincinnati-based Chiquita Brands caused many workers to become sterile.
• When the forerunner of DBCP was developed in the 1940s, it was hailed as a solution to the pests that were killing many U . S . crops.
• Plantation workers who became sterile or were stricken with other maladies subsequently sued Dow and Dole in Nicaraguan courts, alleging that their ailments were caused by DBCP exposure.
• Lagrimas said sterility spread like a curse through the impoverished plantation town of Panabo among men who used the pesticide dibromochloropropane, or DBCP, more than a decade ago.