Tag: sulfuryl fluoride

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 […]

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 […]

Fluoride Action Network 82 Judson Street, Canton NY Email: pesticides@www.fluoridealert.org http://www.fluoridealert.org/ July 5, 2011 To: U.S. EPA Office of Pesticides Programs Comments on Sulfuryl Fluoride; Proposed Order Granting Objections to Tolerances and Denying Request for a Stay. Federal Register, January 19, 2011 Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0174; Document Number: 2011-917 FAN is responding to the EPA’s judgment […]