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The Microbial Logic and Environmental Significance of Reductive Dehalogenation

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Advances in Microbial Ecology

Part of the book series: Advances in Microbial Ecology ((AMIE,volume 14))

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In the last 25 years, Western society has decisively changed its attitude toward halogenated compounds. Until the end of the 1960s, “chemicals” were applied indiscriminately in a wide variety of agricultural and industrial processes. Many of these chemicals were chlorinated compounds. They were used because they had many useful characteristics. One of these characteristics was that they were very stable and rather resistant to chemical and biological degradation. With hindsight it is thus not surprising that these halogenated compounds proved to be quite persistent in the environment. Many of these generally hydrophobic compounds have the tendency to accumulate in biota to such levels that they caused considerable damage or even death. The eloquent outcry of Rachel Carson (1962) and others in the 1960s resulted in a drastic reappraisal of the wisdom of using halogenated organic compounds indiscriminately.

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Dolfing, J., Beurskens, J.E.M. (1995). The Microbial Logic and Environmental Significance of Reductive Dehalogenation. In: Jones, J.G. (eds) Advances in Microbial Ecology. Advances in Microbial Ecology, vol 14. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7724-5_4

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