It is not known whether chlordane will cause reproductive or
birth defectsin humans. Studies of workers who made or used
chlordane do not linkexposure to the chemical with birth
defects, but there are not enoughstudies in humans to know for
sure. There is some evidence that animalsexposed before birth or
while nursing develop behavioural effects whilegrowing up.
Chlordane was not mutagenic when tested using 5 different
strains of Salmonella typhimurium in the Ames assay and other
studies on animal and human cells in culture have shown that
chlordane is not mutagenic or is only weakly mutagenic. It was
not mutagenic to bacteria and did not damaged bacterial or
plasmid DNA.   Structure formula of Chlordane  3D structure of
Chlordane