How do persistent pesticides collect around my home?

How do persistent pesticides collect around my home?

Gary Ginsberg (Toxicologist) gives expert video advice on: What are the sources of toxins in my yard and garden?; How do persistent pesticides collect around my home?; How can my outdoor deck contain arsenic? and more...

Even though chloridane was banned in the 1980's it's still so persistent that in the immediate couple of feet right next to the home's foundation you can still have high levels of chlordane in the soil. And that's a pesticide that is an organo-chlorine that it can act like an environmental hormone and can build up in your body and can also get into plants that you're growing and so you don't want to eat crops that are grown in chloridane containing soil. So chloridane is something that could be in my back yard if your home was built, say before 1988.