Persistent Pesticides

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Persistent Pesticides
Pesticides that do not break down chemically or break down very slowly and remain in the environment after a growing season.

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Persistent pesticides
Pesticides that do not readily break down in the environment. Becoming long-lived components of the ecosystem, these chemicals may have enduring effects at low concentrations or may bioaccumulate, posing hazards to higher predators.
  

Source: U.S. House Committee on Agriculture.

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