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4. fifty thousand different pesticides: Ibid.
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6. Believed to be safe: Smith, Food in America, vol. 1 , 28.
7. DDT soon found other uses: Ibid., 97.
8. warned in 1947 not to use DDT: Ibid., 28 – 29.
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