Abstract
Para-dichlorobenzene, a chemical agent extensively used as a moth repellent and as a deodorant, was found to be present in all thirty-four adipose tissues and six blood samples taken from residents in the Tokyo metropolitan area. This substance was also recovered from ambient air samples taken in the centre and suburbs of Tokyo. The level of p-dichlorobenzene in the fat was approximately equal to that of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) which was determined with some of the same samples, and the concentration in the blood was three times higher than PCBs. Our paper calls for further investigation on the scope of environmental pollution by p-dichlorobenzene and on its biological effects when combined with other pollutants.
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