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Sulfuryl Fluoride and Methyl Bromide
General Information
- Beyond Pesticides Structural Fumigants: Sulfuryl Fluoride and Methyl Bromide ChemWatch Factsheet
- SulfurylFluoride and Methyl Bromide product names
- Chemical Class: Inorganic Fungicide, Insecticide, Rodenticide
- Uses: fumigation of closed structures and their contents such as domestic dwellings, garages, barns, storage buildings, commercial warehouses, ships in port, and railroad cars; targets termites, powder post beetles, old house borers, bedbugs, carpet beetles, clothes moths, cockroaches, rats and mice
- Alternatives: termites, cockroaches, moths, bedbugs, mice
- Beyond Pesticides rating: Toxic
Health and Environmental Effects
- Cancer: Not documented
- Endocrine Disruption: Not documented
- Reproductive Effects: Yes (7)
- Neurotoxicity: Yes (7)
- Kidney/ Liver Damage: Not documented
- Sensitizer/ Irritant: Not documented
- Birth/ Developmental Defects: Yes (7)
- Detected in Groundwater: Not documented
- Potential Leacher: Not documented
- Toxic to Birds: Not documented
- Toxic to Fish/ Aquatic Organisms: Not documented
- Toxic to Bees: Not documented
Additional Information
- Regulatory Status:
- EPA Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) signed (9/1993)
- Beyond Pesticides' petition to cancel tolerances and comments on tolerances.
- Supporting information:
- The Safer Choice (Beyond Pesticides)
- NCAP Sulfuryl Fluoride Factsheet (Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides)
- Extoxnet Sulfuryl Fluoride Factsheet (Extension Toxicology Network)
- PAN Pesticides Database:Sulfuryl Fluoride (Pesticide Action Network)
- Scorecard Sulfuryl Fluoride Factsheet (The Pollution Information Site)
- FAN Sulfuryl Fluoride Factsheet (Fluoride Action Network)
- Key Studies:
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