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Phenothrin (d-Phenothrin)/Sumithrin
General Information
- Beyond Pesticides Synthetic Pyrethroids ChemWatch Factsheet
- Phenothrin product names
- Chemical Class: Synthetic pyrethroid
- Uses: commercial and industrial settings, in animal kennels, medical institutions, and other institutional settings; greenhouses, homes, and gardens, and in recreational areas, vector control for mosquitoes (indoor and outdoor); targets ants, aphids, bed bugs, bees, beetles, billbugs, box elders, borers, cockroaches, cadelles, caterpillars, centipedes, crickets, daubers, earwigs, fleas, flies, gnats, hornets, crawling insects, flying insects, grain insects, lace bugs, leafhoppers, leaf miners, lice, moths, mites, mealy bugs, midges, millipedes, mosquitoes, rust, scab, scales, scorpions, silverfish, spiders, sow bugs, thrips, ticks, wasps, waterbugs, weevils, worms, and yellow jackets
- Alternatives: Residential, Mosquitoes
- Beyond Pesticides rating: Toxic
Health Effects
- EPA Acute Toxicity Class: III - IV (slightly toxic to practically non-toxic)
- Cancer: Not documented
- Endocrine Disruption: Not documented
- Reproductive Effects: Not documented
- Neurotoxicity: Yes (29)
- Kidney/ Liver Damage: Yes (11)
- Sensitizer/ Irritant: Not documented
- Birth/ Developmental Defects: Not documented
Environmental Effects
- Detected in Groundwater: Not documented
- Detected in Streams: Not documented
- Potential Leacher: Not documented
- Toxic to Birds: Not documented
- Toxic to Fish/ Aquatic Organisms: Not documented
- Toxic to Bees: Not documented
- Toxic to Mammals: Not documented
- Long-Range Transport: Not documented
Additional Information
- Regulatory Information:
- EPA Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) signed (6/2008)
- Beyond Pesticides' RED comments.
- Supporting information:
- NCAP Sumithrin Factsheet (Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides)
- PAN Pesticides Database:Phenothrin (Pesticide Action Network)
- Scorecard Phenothrin Factsheet (The Pollution Information Site)
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