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This episode of Swindled may contain graphic descriptions or audio recordings of disturbing events, which may not be suitable for all audiences.

Listener discretion is advised.

Recognize this gentleman.

In English, he is called cockroach, croton bug, roach, water bug, or black beetle.

The Germans call him Chabin, the French La Blat, and in Spanish she she is known as La Cuccoacca.

No matter what the language or country, the cockroach is an unwelcome and disgusting pest in any home.

Scientists have worked for years developing insecticides to control roaches.

DDT proved fairly effective, but later another chemical, Chloridane, was developed and today it is considered to be one of the most effective insecticides for Roach Control.

1974 marked a crisis for the Belsicol Chemical Corporation of Chicago. That year, the Environmental

Protection Agency initiated proceedings to ban both of the company's flagship products, Chlor Dane and Heptichlor, pesticides that had anchored Velcocles business for decades and accounted for a quarter of its total sales.

The alarm centered on both the health hazards and the environmental persistence of the chemicals.

Studies had begun to tie them to cancer risk and neurological disorders. And because Chloridane and Heptichlor were water insoluble, yet lipophilic,

they did not wash away but instead accumulated in living tissue,

lodging in fat cells and magnifying in concentration as they climbed the food chain.

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