IPCS quotes the World Health Organization as stating dieldrin is prohibited for use in agriculture in, among others, Brazil, Ecuador, Finland, the German Democratic Republic, Singapore, Sweden, Yugoslavia, and the USSR.
===Zakonodaja===Aldrin in dieldrin sta bila prepovedana v večini razvitih držav, ampak je aldrin še vedno uporabljen kot termicid v Maleziji, na Tajskem, Venezueli in v nekaterih delih Afrike.