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Pesticides: Flud – Flum

The List of Fluorinated and Fluoride Pesticides
Beginning with
Flud to Flum

Note: The information on the pesticides was current as of 2007 –  FAN intends to update this throughout 2012-2013.

PESTICIDE

ADVERSE EFFECTS

REGISTERED FOR USE
Fludioxonil

  • CAS No. 131341-86-1
  • Fungicide (Pyrrole)
 See effects

  • Body Weight Decrease
  • Cancer: “currently unclassifiable” – statistically significant trend for malignant LYMPHOMAS in female mice; statistically significant increases in LIVER tumors in female rats
  • Cholesterol
  • Endocrine: Ovary
  • Endocrine: Thymus
  • Genotoxic
  • Kidney
  • Liver
  • Spleen

Environmental:

  • Fludioxonil is classed as ‘very persistent’ in soil
  • Relatively high aquatic toxicity to fish, aquatic invertebrates and aquatic plants
 EPA Registered: Yes

  • Registered use in:
    Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, India, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Taiwan, UK, US
  • US: Permitted in or on 948 food commodities.
Fluenetil

  • CAS No. 4301-50-2
  • Acaricide, Insecticide
    (Unclassified)
  • WHO: believed
    obsolete or
    discontinued
 No Tox data availableSee effectsEnvironmental:

  • Highly toxic to fish (Rainbow trout, donaldson trout)
 EPA Registered: No
Fluensulfone

  • Cas No. 318290-98-1
  • Nematicide
 New pesticide as of January 2010. No tox information. EPA Registered: No
Flufenacet

  • CAS No. 142459-58-3
  • Herbicide (Anilide)
 New pesticide in October 1998.See effects

  • Blood
  • Body Weight Decrease
  • Bone
  • Brain
  • Cholesterol
  • Endocrine: Thyroid
  • Endocrine: Uterus
  • Eye
  • Heart
  • Kidney
  • Liver
  • Sciatic Nerve
  • Spinal Cord
  • Spleen

Environmental:

  • Highly toxic to terrestrial, semi-aquatic, and aquatic plants.
  • Likely to persist in soil for some time
 EPA Registered: Yes

  • Registered use in: Canada, Germany, Hungary, Philippines, South Africa, US, UK
Flufenerim

  • CAS No. 170015-32-4
  • Insecticide
    (Pyrimidinamine)
 New pesticide in October 2001.No Tox data available. EPA Registered: No
Flufenican

  • No CAS No.
  • Acaricide, Herbicide 
    (Anilide)
 No toxicological studies available EPA Registered: No
Flufenoxystrobin

  • CAS No. 918162-02-4
  • Acaricide, Fungicide
 New pesticide as of May 2012. No tox information. EPA Registered: No
Flufenoxuron

  • CAS No. 101463-69-8
  • Acaricide,
    Insecticide 
    (Benzoylurea)
    Herbicide
 See effects

  • Blood
  • Bone
  • Endocrine: Adrenal
  • Endocrine: Ovary
  • Endocrine: Testicular
  • Endocrine: Thyroid
  • Kidney
  • Liver 
  • Spleen

Environmental:

  • Persists in soil
  • Extremely toxic to Daphnia (aquatic Invertebrate)
  • Potential to bioaccumulate in fish and aquatic gastropods
 EPA Registered: Yes (for imported commodities)

  • US (for imported commodities): Apple, Cattle, Goat, Grape, Horse, Milk, Orange, Pear, Raisin, Sheep
  • Registered use in:
    Australia, Hungary, India, Japan, Philippines, Portugal, Taiwan, Tanzania, South Africa, Vietnam
Flufenprox

  • CAS No. 107713-58-6
  • Insecticide
    (Pyrethroid)
 No toxicological studies available EPA Registered: No
Flufenpyr

  • CAS No. 188490-07-5
  • Herbicide
    (Pyridazinone)
  • New pesticide in May 2000.
  • Tox data available for Flufenpyr-ethyl only.
 EPA Registered: No
Flufenpyr-ethyl

  • CAS No. 188489-07-8
  • Herbicide
    (Pyridazinone)
  • New pesticide in May 2000.

See effects

  • Anemia
  • Blood
  • Endocrine: Thymus
  • Kidney
  • Liver
 EPA Registered: Yes

  • US EPA approved first-time tolerances in September 2003.
Flufenzin– see Diflovidazin
Flufiprole

  • Cas No. 704886-18-0
  • Insecticide
 New pesticide as of November 2010. No tox information available. EPA Registered: No
Flumequine

  • CAS No. 42835-25-6
  • Microbiocide
    (Unclassified)
 See effects

  • Bladder
  • Blood
  • Body Weight Decrease
  • Bone
  • Eye
  • Liver
  • Mitogenic
  • Potent Photosensitizer
  • Teratogenic

Environmental:

  • Very persistent in sediments (at a fish farm site)

Contamination of the environment of a coastal river

 EPA Registered: No

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

  • CAS No. 69770-45-2
  • Acaricide, Insecticide
    (Pyrethroid)
 See effects

  • Ataxia
  • Body Weight Decrease
  • Bone
  • Clastogenic / Genotoxicity
  • Dermal
  • Liver
  • Spleen

Environmental:

  • Highly toxic to Daphnia (aquatic Invertebrate)
 EPA Registered: No

  • Registered use in: New Zealand, South Africa, Tanzania
  • Product recall in 2002: Australia
Flumetover

  • CAS No. 154025-04-4
  • Fungicide
    (Unclassified)
 No toxicological studies available EPA Registered: No
Flumetralin

  • CAS No. 62924-70-3
  • Plant Growth
    Regulator 
    (2,6-Dinitroaniline)
 See effectsEnvironmental:

  • Acute aquatic toxicity
 EPA Registered: Yes

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

  • CAS No. 98967-40-9
  • Herbicide (Triazolopyrimidine)
 See effects

  • Kidney

Environmental:

  • Highly toxic to Fish and Zooplankton
  • Potential Ground Water Pollutant
 EPA Registered: Yes

  • Registered use in:
    Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Tanzania, US
Flumezin

  • CAS No. 25475-73-4
  • Herbicide
    (dicarboximide)
 No toxicological studies available EPA Registered: No
Flumiclorac

  • CAS No. 87547-04-4
  • Herbicide
    (n-phenylphthalimide or dicarboximide)
 No toxicological studies available.

  • See Flumicloac-pentyl below.
 EPA Registered: No
Flumiclorac-pentyl 

  • CAS No. 87546-18-7
  • Herbicide
    (n-phenylphthalimide or dicarboximide)
 See effects

  • Blood
  • Kidney
  • Liver
  • Phototoxic

Environmental:

  • Highly toxic to Zooplankton
 EPA Registered: Yes
Flumioxazin

  • CAS No. 103361-09-7
  • Herbicide
    (n-phenylphthalimide or dicarboximide)
 See effects

  • Anemia
  • Blood
  • Body Weight Decrease
  • Bone
  • Brain
  • Cholesterol
  • Cytotoxic (results equivocal)
  • Endocrine: Adrenal
  • Endocrine: Testicular
  • Endocrine: Thymus
  • Endocrine: Thyroid
  • Heart
  • Kidney
  • Liver
  • Lymph Node
  • Teratogen

Environmental:

  • Phototoxic Pesticide
  • Toxic to aquatic invertebrates.
  • Highly toxic to terrestrial plants
 EPA Registered: Yes

  • Registered use in: Argentina, Brazil. China, France, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Paraguay, South Africa, Spain, US, Zimbabwe
Flumipropyn 

  • CAS No. 84478-52-4
  • Herbicide
    (n-phenylphthalimide or dicarboximide)
 No toxicological studies available EPA Registered: No
Flumorph

  • CAS No. 211867-47-9
  • Fungicide
    (Morpholine)
 April 2002, New Pesticide: No Tox data available. EPA Registered: No

Compiled by the Fluoride Action Network Pesticide Project

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