S9 Ep132: The Mix-Up (Velsicol Chemical Company)
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🗓️ 28 September 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
A catastrophic contamination strikes Michigan when an industrial chemical (PBB) is mistakenly mixed into cattle feed.
Prelude: Workers at a Texas chemical plant are turned into “zombies" after exposure to the toxic pesticide Phosvel.
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| 1:12.6 | Recognize this gentleman. |
| 1:16.6 | In English, he is called cockroach, croton bug, roach, water bug, or black beetle. |
| 1:21.6 | The Germans call him Chabin, the French La Blat, and in Spanish she she is known as La Cuccoacca. |
| 1:33.4 | No matter what the language or country, the cockroach is an unwelcome and disgusting pest in any home. |
| 1:39.0 | Scientists have worked for years developing insecticides to control roaches. |
| 1:46.2 | 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. |
| 1:50.2 | 1974 marked a crisis for the Belsicol Chemical Corporation of Chicago. That year, the Environmental |
| 1:58.8 | 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. |
| 2:13.0 | The alarm centered on both the health hazards and the environmental persistence of the chemicals. |
| 2:21.3 | Studies had begun to tie them to cancer risk and neurological disorders. And because Chloridane and Heptichlor were water insoluble, yet lipophilic, |
| 2:26.3 | they did not wash away but instead accumulated in living tissue, |
| 2:30.3 | lodging in fat cells and magnifying in concentration as they climbed the food chain. |
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