[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***And no parent with any degree of responsibility would have permitted that, whether the ingredient was DDT or anything else.****

DDT is perfectly harmless to people. We used to spray it on ourselves to keep the mosquitoes away in SE ASIA.

[steve86]

DDT is perfectly harmless to people.

That isn't the point. A parent who KNOWS a child is following or even playing in any kind of industrial fumigant and permits that to happen isn't a fit parent, then or now.