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French court refuses trial on use of toxic insecticide in French West Indies
A French court ruled against a trial on the use of the toxic insecticide chlordécone in the French West Indies, closing a 20-year health scandal. Despite being labeled possibly carcinogenic in 1979, chlordécone was used from 1972 to 1993 via a by-law that circumvented its 1990 ban.
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