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Mr. Redmond
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the dangerous chemicals and substances currently on his Department's red list.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory
The following dangerous substances are currently on the red list:
- Mercury and its compounds
- Cadmium and its compounds
- Gamma-Hexachlorocyclohexane
- DDT
- Pentachlorophenol
- Hexachlorobenzene
- Hexachlorobutadiene
- Aldrin
- Dieldrin
- Endrin
- Polychlorinated Biphenyls
- Dichlorvos
- 1, 2-Dichloroethane
- Trichlorobenzene
- Atrazine
- Simazine
- Tributyltin compounds
- Triphenyltin compounds
- Trifluralin
- Fenitrothion
- Azinphos-methyl
- Malathion
- Endosulfan