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Toward an Electrochemical Approach to On-Site Generation of Hydroxide and Hydrogen Peroxide for Scrubbing and Degrading Sulfuryl Fluoride Fumigant.

September 19, 2025

Dose-dependent lethality of sulfuryl fluoride and transcriptomic insights into tolerance evolution on Cheyletus malaccensis (Oudemans) (Acari: Cheyletidae).

July 3, 2025

Hydrogen Peroxide-Assisted Alkaline Defluorination of the Fumigant and Potent Greenhouse Gas, Sulfuryl Fluoride: Hydrogen Peroxide as a Nucleophilic Reagent.

October 16, 2024

Acute Sulfuryl Fluoride Poisoning in a Family — Florida, August 2015.

July 15, 2016

Sulfuryl Fluoride: House Passes Farm Bill — Vote Coming in Senate

January 31, 2014

Dear Supporter, On Monday, the Conference Committee on the Agricultural Act of 2014 released the final compromise language for the legislation, also known as the “Farm Bill.” The committee added the following language at the eleventh hour, that reverses EPA’s proposed phase-out of the neurotoxic fumigant sulfuryl fluoride (which took 8 years in a hard-won victory by […]

Sufluryl Fluoride in Farm Bill

January 29, 2014

Dear Supporter, When you want to introduce a toxic fluoride pesticide into America’s food supply and you don’t have science, or the law, on your side, what do you do? You pay millions of dollars to lobbyists in Washington D.C. to re-write the law. And that, unfortunately, is exactly what Dow AgroSciences has appeared to […]

Industry-backed bill protects pesticide profits over children’s health

April 25, 2013

Dow AgroSciences, one of the nation’s largest pesticide makers, along with various food companies, have persuaded several members of Congress to endorse a bill that directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reverse a proposed phaseout of sulfuryl fluoride, a highly toxic food fumigant and potent greenhouse gas. If passed, the bill would make the […]

The Universal Consensus on Sulfuryl Fluoride = Keep It Away From Food

April 25, 2013

Of the few western nations that allow food facilities to be fumigated with sulfuryl fluoride (trade name = “ProFume”), only the U.S. and Australia allow the fumigation to occur while food is still on the premises. Although the EPA has recently proposed phasing out all food-based uses of sulfuryl fluoride, Dow AgroSciences (the manufacturer of ProFume), is lobbying […]

Relevance to Fluoride Pesticides

August 4, 2012

The NRC report is not only relevant to current drinking water standards for fluoride, it is also highly relevant to EPA’s regulation of fluoride-based pesticides. Prior to the release of the NRC report, the EPA granted a request from Dow AgroSciences to use sulfuryl fluoride as a fumigant on food and food-processing facilities. The EPA based […]

Fluoride tolerances approved for food by US EPA as of July 15, 2005.

July 26, 2012

The formal term for allowable levels for pesticide residues in/or on food is Tolerance. TABLE 1. Fluoride tolerances approved by US EPA as of July 15, 2005 Tolerances in or on the raw agricultural commodity or “processed food” in parts-per-million (ppm) COMMODITY FLUORIDE SULFURYL FLUORIDE PESTICIDE and REFERENCE Apricot 7 Cryolite (1) All processed food commodities […]

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