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In 1975 workers at Life Science Products, a small makeshift pesticide factory in Hopewell, Virginia, became ill after exposure to Kepone, the brand name for the pesticide chlordecone. Gregory Wilson explores the conditions that put the Kepone factory and the workers there in the first place and the effects of the poison long after 1975.

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      Publisher: LUP - University of Georgia Press
      Publication Date: 4/1/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780820363486, 978-0820363486
      ISBN10: 0820363480
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      Book Synopsis
      In 1975 workers at Life Science Products, a small makeshift pesticide factory in Hopewell, Virginia, became ill after exposure to Kepone, the brand name for the pesticide chlordecone. Gregory Wilson explores the conditions that put the Kepone factory and the workers there in the first place and the effects of the poison long after 1975.

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