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Pesticides: FLUP – FUR

The List of Fluorinated and Fluoride Pesticides
Beginning with
FLUP – FUR

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
Flupoxam

  • CAS No. 119126-15-7
  • Herbicide
    (Amide; Triazole)
 No toxicological studies available EPA Registered: No

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

  • CAS No. 120890-70-2
  • Herbicide (Uracil)
 No toxicological studies available EPA Registered: No
Flupropadine

  • CAS No. 81613-59-4
  • Rodenticide
    (Unclassified)
 No toxicological studies available EPA Registered: No
Flupropanate

  • CAS No. 756-09-2
  • Herbicide
    (Unclassified)
 No toxicological studies available EPA Registered: No
Flupropanate-sodium

  • CAS No. 22898-01-7
  • Herbicide
    (Unclassified)
 No toxicological studies available EPA Registered: No

  • Registered use in:
    Australia
Flupyradifurone

  • Cas No. 951659-40-8
  • Insecticide
 New pesticide as of June 2011. No toxicological studies available. EPA Registered: No
Flupyrsulfuron

  • CAS No. 150315-10-9
  • Herbicide
    (Sulfonylurea)
 No toxicological studies accessible. See Flupyrsulfuron-methyl, sodium below. EPA Registered: No

  • Registered use in: 
    Germany
 Flupyrsulfuron
-methyl, sodium

  • CAS No. 144740-54-5
  • Herbicide
    (Sulfonylurea)
 See effects

  • Body Weight Decrease
  • Bone
  • Liver

Environmental:

 

  • Potential for groundwater contamination when applied in regions with vulnerable soil and/or extreme climatic conditions.
 EPA Registered: No

  • Registered use in: 
    Hungary
Fluquinconazole

  • CAS No. 136426-54-5
  • Fungicide (Azole)
 See effects

  • Ataxia
  • Blood
  • Body Weight Decrease (emaciation)
  • Bone
  • Endocrine: Breast
  • Endocrine: Pituitary
  • Endocrine: Thyroid
  • Fetotoxicity
  • Kidney
  • Liver

Environmental:

 

  • Highly toxic to fish and algae.
 EPA Registered: No

  • Registered use in:
    Australia, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, South Africa, UK
FlurazoleCAS No. 72850-64-7Herbicide safener
(unclassified)		 No toxicological studies available EPA Registered: No
Fluridone

  • CAS No. 59756-60-4
  • Herbicide
    (Unclassified)
 See effects

  • Body Weight Decrease
  • Bone
  • Dermal
  • Endocrine: Testicular
  • Eye
  • Kidney
  • Liver

Environmental:

  • Toxic to fish
 EPA Registered: Yes

  • European Commission: Not allowed to be used as an active ingredient after July 25, 2003.
  • US – permitted in or on 50 food commodities, including:
    Avocado, Cattle, Citrus, Cotton, Crayfish, Cucurbits, Egg, Fish, Fruit (Pome & Small), Goat, Grain Crops, Grass (Forage), Hog, Horse, Sheep, Legume (Forage), Milk, Nuts, Poultry, Vegetable: (Leafy; Root Crop; Seed & Pod)
FlurochloridoneSee above Fluorochloridone
Fluroxypyr

  • CAS No. 69377-81-7
  • Herbicide
    (Pyridine)
 See effects

  • Ataxia
  • Body Weight Decrease
  • Bone
  • Endocrine: Adrenal
  • Endocrine: Testicular
  • Kidney
  • Mesenteric Lymph Node

Environmental:

  • Highly toxic to the eastern oyster
  • Highly toxic to terrestrial plants.
  • UK: Fluroxypyr ranked number 9 for “Most Widely used pesticides (by Area Treated)”
 EPA Registered: Yes

  • US Tolerances: CFR 180.535,
    foreign use
  • Registered use in:
    Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, India, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Taiwan, Tanzania, UK, US
Fluroxypyr
-butoxypropyl

  • CAS No. 154486-27-8
  • Herbicide
 No toxicological studies available EPA Registered: No

  • US Tolerances:
    CFR 180.535, foreign use
Fluroxypyr 1-
methylheptyl ester 

  • CAS No. 81406-37-3
  • Herbicide
 See effects

  • Bone
  • Endocrine: Adrenal
  • Endocrine: Testicular
  • Kidney

Environmental:

  • Highly Toxic to Crustaceans and Zooplankton
  • Slightly to Highly Toxic to Fish
 EPA Registered: Yes

  • Registered use in:
    Australia, Canada, Hungary, US
Flurprimidol

  • CAS No. 56425-91-3
  • Plant Growth
    Regulator
    (Pyrimidine)
 See effects

  • Body Weight Decrease
  • Bone
  • Cholesterol
  • Endocrine: Adrenal
  • Endocrine: Ovary (inc. estrous)
  • Kidney
  • Liver
  • Urinary Tract
 EPA Registered: Yes

  • Registered use in:
    Denmark, Finland,
    Germany, US
Flurtamone

  • CAS No. 96525-23-4
  • Herbicide
    (Unclassified)
 See effects:

  • Amyloidosis – Systemic
  • Body Weight Decrease
  • Bone
  • Brain
  • Kidney
  • Liver
  • Spleen
 EPA Registered: No

  • Registered use in:
    Germany, UK
Flusilazole

  • CAS No. 85509-19-9
  • Fungicide
    (Azole)
 See effects

  • Bladder
  • Blood
  • Body Weight Decrease
  • Bone – Cleft palate
  • Brain
  • Conjoined Twins
  • Developmental
  • Endocrine: Suspected Disruptor
  • Endocrine: Testicular
  • Eye – Microphthalmia and Coloboma
  • Kidney
  • Liver
  • Reproductive
  • Teratogenic
  • Tongue

Environmental:

  • Persistent in soil
  • Potential for impact on reproductive process of fish
  • Acute toxicity to oysters – shell deposition
  • Acute toxicity to mysid shrimp
  • Acute toxicity to sheepshead minnow
  • Flusilazole ranked number 10 for “Most Widely used pesticides in the UK (by Area Treated)” and “Carbendazim/flusilazole”ranked number 19 in the same category.
  • EPA Registered: Pending for Emergency Exemption Use on Soybean as of September 2005
  • US Tolerances: Formerly Revoked
  • European Commission: Withdrawn due to low degradability. 1994.
  • Registered use in:  Argentina, Australia, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Taiwan, UK
Flusulfamide

  • CAS No. 106917-52-6
  • Fungicide
    (Anilide)
 No toxicological studies available EPA Registered: No

  • Registered use in: Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan
Fluthiacet

  • CAS No. 149253-65-6
  • Herbicide
    (Unclassified)
 No toxicological studies available EPA Registered: No
Fluthiacet-methyl

  • CAS No. 117337-19-6
  • Herbicide
    (Imine)
 See effects

  • Anemia
  • Blood
  • Body Weight Decrease
  • Bone
  • Cancer: Likely to be a human carcinogen – PANCREAS (males) and LIVER 
  • Clastogenic
  • Endocrine: Uterus
  • Liver
  • Pancreas

Environmental:

  • Phototoxic Pesticide
  • Very highly toxic to fish
 EPA Registered: Yes

  • Registered use in: US
Flutianil 

  • CAS No. 958647-10-4
  • Fungicide
    (Thiazolidine)
 New pesticide as of July 2008
No data available		 EPA Registered: No
Flutolanil

  • CAS No. 66332-96-5
  • Fungicide
    (Benzanilide)
 See effects

  • Body Weight Decrease
  • Bone
  • Brain
  • Cholesterol
  • Endocrine: Thyroid
  • Eye
  • Liver
  • Spleen

Environmental:

  • Highly persistent in soil.
  • Anaerobic Aquatic Metabolism: Flutolanil had a half-life of >13 years.
 EPA Registered: Yes

  • Registered use in: Finland, Japan, Netherlands, Taiwan, US
Flutriafol

  • CAS No. 76674-21-0
  • Fungicide (Azole)
 See effects

  • Body Weight Decrease
  • Bone
  • Eye
  • Liver

Environmental:

  • Extremely persistent in soil
  • Water contamination is likely
  • Flutriafol ranked number 20 for “Most Widely used pesticides in the UK (by Area Treated)” — report published in 2000.
 EPA Registered: Pending for Emergency Exemption Use on Soybean as of September 2005

  • Registered use in: Australia, Germany, Hungary, New Zealand, South Africa, Tanzania, UK
Fluvalinate

  • CAS No. 69409-94-5
  • Acaricide,
    Insecticide 
    (Pyrethroid)
  • WHO: believed
    obsolete or
    discontinued(however, in the US residues are approved in honey)
 See effects

  • Anemia
  • Blood
  • Body Weight Decrease
  • Bone
  • Brain
  • Dermal
  • Endocrine: Spermatogenesis
  • Endocrine Disruptor: Suspected

Environmental:

  • Very highly toxic to Crustaceans and Fish
  • Highly toxic to Zooplankton
 EPA Registered: Yes

  • Registered use in: Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan, US
  • US: Honey
Fluxapyroxad

  • CAS No. 907204-31-3
  • Fungicide
 New pesticide as of January 2010. No toxicological information available. EPA Registered: No
Fluxofenim

  • CAS No. 88485-37-4
  • Herbicide safener
    (Unclassified)
 See effects

  • Endocrine: Thyroid
  • Kidney
  • Liver
 EPA Registered: No
Fomesafen

  • CAS No. 72178-02-0
  • Herbicide
    (Diphenyl ether)
 See effects

  • Blood
  • Body Weight Decrease
  • Bone
  • Cancer: Possible Human Carcinogen – LIVER
  • Liver
  • Stomach

Environmental:

  • Phototoxic Pesticide.
  • Potential ground water contaminant
 EPA Registered: No

  • Registered use in: Canada, France, Hungary, Italy, South Africa, Tanzania, UK, US
  • EU: after July 25, 2003 only allowed for use in:
    France – Soybean, bean
    Italy – Soybean, bean, pea
    UK- Pea, bean, lupin .
Fomesafen sodium

  • CAS No. 108731-70-0
  • Herbicide
    (Diphenyl ether)
 See effects

  • Cancer: Possible Human Carcinogen – LIVER
 EPA Registered: Yes
Furconazole

  • CAS No. 112839-33-5
  • Fungicide (Azole)
 No toxicological studies available EPA Registered: No

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

  • CAS No. 112839-32-4
  • Fungicide (Azole)
  • WHO: believed
    obsolete or
    discontinued
 No toxicological studies available EPA Registered: No

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

  • CAS No. 80020-41-3
  • Fungicide,
    Herbicide 
    (Nitrophenyl ether)
 No toxicological studies available EPA Registered: No

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