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["Joanie G" <naturalistandherbalist@gmail.com>]

I picked apples in New Hampshire until 1987, when my second child was born, at a small family owned orchard where the owner was STILL using up his stash of DDT.  When he made that confession to me I figured it was time to quit (I was well into my thirties), though I had spent perhaps a dozen years picking at that particular orchard. 

 

Joanie in MiddleMass.

Yes, it has.  I wasn’t saying that my childhood didn’t occur well before 1972… ;-)

The problems with DDT linger, of course.

 

DDT use has been banned in the USA since 1972;