PESTICIDE

ADVERSE EFFECTS

REGISTERED FOR USE

• CAS No. 75-73-0

• Propellant
  (Halogenated organic)

• Former US EPA List 3 Inert

• CNS
• Heart
• Lung
• Tremors

Environmental:

• Potent Greenhouse Gas – global warming potential of approximately 6,500 times that of CO2 and a lifetime that exceeds 10,000 years.EPA Registered: No

• CAS No. 128621-72-7

• Herbicide
  (Triazolone)

• Registered use in: Germany

• CAS No. 128639-02-1

• Herbicide
  (Unclassified)

• Blood
• Body Weight Decrease
• Bonev
• Endocrine: Thymus
• Kidney
• Liver
• Spleen

Environmental:

• Highly Toxic to Aquatic Plants

• Phototoxic

• Major metabolites are mobile to very highly mobile in soil and have potential to leach

• Registered use in:Australia, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, Switzerland, UK, US

• US – On Sept 29, 2004, US EPA approved over 300 food tolerances – see list

• CAS No. 122453-73-0

• Acaricide,
  Insecticide (Pyrazole)

• Anemia
• Body Weight Decrease
• Bone
• Brain
• Cancer: Suggestive – LIVER, TESTES, UTERINE
• Cholesterol
• CNS
• Dermal
• Endocrine: Testicular
• Endocrine: Uterine
• Liver
• Spinal Cord

Note from FAN:
Both bromine and fluorine are in the chemical formula for this substance; a combination that provides potential for severe effects on the brain. (EC)

Environmental:

• “one of the most reproductively toxic pesticides to avian species [the EPA] has evaluated.”

• “A persistent compound” in soil and sediment.

• Very toxic to fish, aquatic invertebrates, and honeybees, and toxic to algae.

• Registered use in: Australia, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, South Africa, Taiwan, Tanzania, US, Vietnam

• US FINAL RULE, Sept 26, 2003: 1 ppm in or on raw agricultural commodities – vegetables, fruiting, group 8, which include: chili, postharvest; pepper, nonbell; tomato, paste; eggplant; pepper, nonbell; sweet tomato, puree; groundcherry; tomatillo; tomato, wet, pomace; pepino; tomato; vegetable, fruiting; pepper; tomato, concentrated products; vegetable, fruiting; grouppepper, bell; tomato, dried pomace

• See US food tolerances US FINAL RULE, Jan 26, 2005: A tolerance of 0.01 ppm was established January 2005 for residues of chlorfenapyr in or on all food commodities as a result of application of chlorfenapyr to crack, crevice and spot applications in food/feed handling areas where food/feed products are prepared, held, processed, or served.

• CAS No. 71422-67-8

• Insecticide, Insect Growth Regulator (Benzoylurea)

• Liver

Environmental:

• Reduction in growth rate of earth worms

Contamination: June 1997: “In Australia, four hundred and eighty cattle producers from northern New South Wales and western Queensland have launched a class action to seek millions of dollars compensation in the Federal Court from chemical company ICI and the NSW and Queensland governments. The case involves contamination of cattle and meat by the chemical chlorafluazuron (CFZ) which was widely used in aerial spraying to control insects in cotton crops between 1989 and 1994…”

• Registered use in: Australia, Hungary, Japan, Phillipines, Taiwan, Vietnam
• European Commission: Not allowed to be used as an active ingredient after July 25, 2003.

• (also known as Chloroflurazole)

• CAS No. 3615-21-2

• Herbicide
  (Benzimidazole)

• Liver

• CAS No. 98-56-6

• Intermediate used in the manufacture of dinitroaniline herbicides.

• Endocrine: Adrenal
• Kidney
• Liver

• CAS No. 75-68-3

• Solvent, EPA List 2 Inert (Halogenated organic)

• Bone
• Cancer – potential
• Endocrine: Thyroid
• Lung
• Tremors

Environmental:

• “Dangerous for the ozone layer”

• Registered in: US

• Because this is an “Inert”, the public is not allowed to know which crops it is used on.

• CAS No. 75-45-6

• Insecticide,
  Fungicide,
  Propellant
  (Halogenated organic)

• EPA List 2 Inert

• Body Weight Decrease
• Brain
• Cancer: limited evidence, fibrosarcomas
• Cholesterol
• CNS
• Endocrine: Adrenal
• Endocrine: Pituitary
• Eye – Microphthalmia and Anophthalmia
• Heart
• Kidney
• Liver
• Lung
• Mutagenic (Eye)
• Salivary Glands
• Spinal Cord
• Tremors

Environmental:

• Dangerous for the ozone layer

• EPA Registered: Yes

• EPA List 2 Inert

• Registered in: US Because this is an “Inert”, the public is not allowed to know which crops it is used on.

• CAS No. 593-70-4

• EPA List 3 Inert

• Cancer: Limited evidence for carcinogenicity – STOMACH

• EPA Registered: Yes

• List 3 Inert

• Registered in: US Because this is an “Inert”, the public is not allowed to know which crops it is used on.

• CAS No. 114420-56-3

• Herbicide, Plant Growth Regulator
  (Aryloxyphenoxy propionic acid)

• EPA Registered: Yes

• Registered use in: Germany, Portugal, US

• See US food tolerances

• CAS No. 105512-06-9

• Herbicide, Plant Growth Regulator (Aryloxyphenoxy propionic acid)

• Anemia
• Bladder (ureter)
• Blood
• Body Weight Decrease
• Bone
• Cancer: Likely to be carcinogenic to humans – PROSTATE, OVARIAN, LIVER, BLOOD
• Clastogenicity
• Dermal
• Endocrine: Ovary
• Endocrine: Prostate
• Endocrine: Thymus
• Kidney
• Liver
• Tremors

Environmental:

• Highly Toxic to Freshwater Fish

• The major degradate, CGA-193469, is persistent and has the potential to contaminate drinking water.

• Registered use in: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Hungary, India, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, US

• See US food tolerances

• CAS No. 159518-97-5

• Herbicide (Triazolopyrimidine)

• See US food tolerances

• CAS No. 147150-35-4

• Herbicide (Triazolopyrimidine)

• Blood
• Body Weight Decrease
• Cholesterol
• Endocrine: Testicular
• Endocrine: Thyroid
• Kidney
• Liver

Environmental:

• Potential for ground water contamination

• … while cloransulam-methyl and its transformation products are likely to be only of slight persistence in the surface, the chemicals may become more persistent when leached into the subsurface.

• Registered use in:

Canada, US

• See US food tolerances

• also known as Cupric hexafluorosilicate

• CAS No. 12062-24-7

• Insecticide

• CAS No. 15096-52-3

• Insecticide (Fluorine/Inorganic)

• US MAP

• EPA RED

• Registered use in: US: Apricot, Blackberry, Blueberry (huckleberry) Boysenberry, Broccoli, Brussels Sprout, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Citrus fruit, Collards, Cranberry, Dewberry, Eggplant, Fruit (citrus), Grape, Kale, Kiwifruit, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Loganberry, Melon, Nectarine, Peach, Pepper, Plum (prune, fresh), Pumpkin, Raspberry, Squash (summer & winter), Strawberry, Tomato, Youngberry

• See US food tolerances

• Wood Preservative

• Registered use in: Australia

• CAS No. 180409-60-3

• Fungicide (Unclassified)

• New pesticide in 2001.

• CAS No. 400882-07-7

• Acaricide (bridged diphenyl)

• CAS No. 68359-37-5

• Note: Cyfluthrin & Beta-cyfluthrin have the same CAS Nos.

• Insecticide (Pyrethroid)

• US MAP

• EPA Restricted Use

• Ataxia
• Blood
• Body Weight Decrease
• Bone
• Brain
• Endocrine: Adrenal
• Endocrine: Ovary
• Endocrine: Thymus
• Eye – Microphthalmia
• Genotoxic
• Kidney
• Lung
• Salivary Glands
• Sciatic nerve
• Tremors

Environmental:

• Acute Toxicity to Fish and Saltwater Life

• Registered use in: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, India, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Portugal, Taiwan, UK, US

• Africa: Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Tanzania

• US – permitted in or on over 200 food commodities

• See US food tolerances

• There are also two tolerances of 0.05 ppm for residues of the insecticide cyfluthrin from general surface, spot, and/or crack and crevice applications in food commodities and in feed commodities

• CAS No. 122008-78-0

• Herbicide (Aryloxyphenoxy propionic acid)

• See US food tolerances

• CAS No. 122008-85-9

• Herbicide (Aryloxyphenoxy propionic acid)

• Registered use in:Japan, Phillipines, Taiwan, US, Vietnam

• Pending as of July 2005: Australia

• See US food tolerances

• CAS No. 68085-85-8

• Acaricide, Insecticide (Type 2 Pyrethroid)

• Ataxia
• Body Weight Decrease
• CNS
• Endocrine: Suspected Disruptor
• Endocrine: Testicular
• Eye
• Liver
• Tremors/Convulsions

Environmental:

• Highly Toxic to Fish, Aquatic Invertebrates, and Honeybees

• Registered use in: India, Japan, Taiwan

• Africa: Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal

• European Commission: Not allowed to be used as an active ingredient after July 25, 2003.

• CAS No. 76703-62-3

• Insecticide (Pyrethroid)

• Body Weight Decrease
• Dermal
• Endocrine: Suspected Disruptor
• Neuromuscular
• Reproductive

• US – Lambda-cyhalothrin and its isomer Gamma-cyhalothrin have more than 380 food tolerances.

• See US food tolerances

• CAS No. 91465-08-6

• Insecticide (Pyrethroid)

• US MAP

• Ataxia
• Body Weight Decrease
• Bone
• Brain
• Cholesterol
• CNS
• Endocrine: Breast
• Endocrine: Suspected Disruptor
• Endocrine: Testes
• Endocrine: Thyroid
• Eye
• Genotoxic / Clastogenic / Cytotoxic
• Liver
• Reproductive
• Salivary Glands
• Tremors/Convulsions

Environmental:

• Highly Toxic to Fish, Aquatic Invertebrates, and Honeybees

• Persistent in aquatic sediment

• Groundwater pollutant

• Registered use in: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Portugal, UK, US

• Africa:Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda

• US: Lambda-cyhalothrin and its isomer Gamma-cyhalothrin have more than 380 food tolerances (see Gamma-cyhalothrin above).

• There is a separate food additive tolerance of 0.01 ppm for residues of Lambda-cyhalothrin in or on all food items (other than those already covered by a higher tolerance as a result of use on growing crops) in food-handling establishments where food products are held, processed, or prepared.

• See US food tolerances