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(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, January 11, 2022) A study finds that the pesticide sulfuryl fluoride, used for insect (i.e., termites, bedbugs, cockroaches, etc.) fumigation treatments, increases greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to the report, \u201cTermite Fumigation in California Is Fueling the Rise of a Rare Greenhouse Gas<\/a>.\u201d Not only do most sulfuryl fluoride emissions in the U.S. occur in California, but a majority of global emissions also occur in California. When the use of methyl bromide for agricultural and structural fumigation was phased-out under the Montreal Protocol, sulfuryl fluoride became a replacement for fumigation treatments. However, researchers have identified concentrations of sulfuryl fluoride in the atmosphere due to the chemical\u2019s long half-life and greenhouse warming potential (GWP). The\u00a0California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006<\/a>\u00a0does not list sulfuryl fluoride emissions as a GHG risk. Therefore, the researchers\u00a0note<\/a>, \u201cThis work emphasizes the importance of considering [sulfuryl fluoride] SO2F2 in state and national greenhouse gas inventories and emissions reduction strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Researchers employed geostatistical inverse model (GIM)\u2014commonly used to estimate GHG fluxes\u2014alongside atmospheric measurements of sulfuryl fluoride to estimate emissions throughout the United States. Using programmable flask packages (PFPs), researchers examined atmospheric observational data from towers, observatories, and aircraft, measuring concentrations of sulfuryl fluoride via\u00a0gas chromatography-mass spectrometry<\/a>. To compare surface and downwind emission, the researchers used the Lagrangian particle dispersion model (STILT) with multiple variables, including county-wide uses of sulfuryl fluoride and the U.S. Geographical Survey National Land Cover Database.<\/p>\n

The GIM results demonstrate that most U.S. sulfuryl fluoride emissions derive from California, specifically the greater Los Angeles (LA) area (up to 400 parts per trillion between 2015 and 2017), followed by the Bay area. Moreover, all regions outside of California have negligible sulfuryl fluoride atmospheric concentrations, resulting in little to no emissions. Thus, the study implies California is the world\u2019s leading sulfuryl fluoride emitter. Leading author Dylan\u00a0Gaeta<\/a>, a Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University, extrapolates, \u201cWe expected to see little splotches of emissions throughout at least some other parts of the country\u2026The fact that we are seeing almost all of it from California? That was the shocking part.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sulfuryl fluoride is a fluoride compound with various\u00a0adverse health effects<\/a>, including\u00a0cancer<\/a>,\u00a0endocrine disruption<\/a>,\u00a0neurotoxicity<\/a>\u00a0(reduced IQ<\/a>), and\u00a0reproductive<\/a>\u00a0damage. The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) amendments to Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) require that a pesticide registered for use by the agency cannot exceed acceptable risk thresholds for both dietary and non-dietary exposure. However, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s (EPA) peer-reviewed risk assessment of fluoride exposure finds that exposure to fluoride from various sources (i.e., sulfuryl fluoride residues in food commodities, fluoride exposure in water and toothpaste) did not meet the safety standard under FFDCA. Moreover, sulfuryl fluoride rapidly metabolizes (breaks down) in the body into fluoride. Considering the compound has a long half-life in human bones (~20 years),\u00a0advocates<\/a>\u00a0attest EPA should withdraw the allowed tolerances for food uses of sulfuryl fluoride.<\/p>\n

Sulfuryl fluoride, registered for termite and other wood-boring pest extermination in 1959, gained additional attention as a potential alternative to\u00a0methyl bromide<\/a>, a broad-spectrum insect fumigant used in post-harvest storage and food processing facilities. Methyl bromide\u2019s designation as a greenhouse gas under the Montreal Protocol (2005) caused a gradual reduction in use. However, when no feasible methyl bromide alternatives are available, the \u201ccritical use exemption<\/a>\u201d (CUE) allows the\u00a0use<\/a>\u00a0of this chemical. Furthermore, others (i.e.,\u00a0Natural Resources Defense Council<\/a>) argue that the disallowance of any sulfuryl fluoride uses will lead to prolonged or increased methyl bromide use. However,\u00a0Beyond Pesticides and others maintain<\/a>\u00a0that without the phase-out of sulfuryl fluoride, there will be no incentive for grain storage facilities to upgrade and adopt modern practices that forego hazardous chemical use. Although EPA decided to phase-out sulfuryl fluoride use on food commodities in\u00a02011<\/a>, Dow AgroScience (the manufacturer of sulfuryl fluoride under the trade names Vikane and ProFume), along with others lobbied\u00a0against<\/a>\u00a0efforts to phase-out use, in the lead up to Congressional action to overrule the science on adverse health effects.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Congress, in the 2014 Farm Bill (Agricultural Act of 2014), included a provision that requires EPA to ignore the science and law that establishes the safety threshold for exposure to fluoride. (See When Politics Trumps Science and Health Suffers<\/a>.) The use of the pesticide sulfuryl fluoride, allowed in food production since 2004, in combination with fluoride use in water fluoridation, creates unacceptable hazards under EPA and National Academy of Sciences (NAS) scientific determinations. However, in an intervention that simply defies the scientific literature and thresholds for safety, the bill language orders EPA not to follow the law and science. The regulatory agencies responsible for protecting public health have identified elevated risk of dental fluorosis (breaking down of teeth enamel) in young children, and possibly skeletal fluorosis (joint pain and muscle impairment), while the scientific literature raises serious issues of neurological and brain effects from elevated levels of fluoride.<\/p>\n

The sulfuryl fluoride\/GHG study represents an all too familiar pattern of widespread chemical use without proper knowledge of health and environmental effects before implementation. According to the\u00a0most recent data<\/a>\u00a0by the California Department of Pesticide Regulations, sulfuryl fluoride is the 12th most used pesticide applied to sites across California, with over 2.9 million pounds used in 2018 for structural and agricultural pest control. Although sulfuryl fluoride emissions mainly stem from the greater Los Angeles area, researchers suggest other states, like Florida, may also produce emissions that remain unaccounted for by current National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) chemical tracking. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) added sulfuryl fluoride to its list of \u201cshort-lived climate pollutants,\u201d being the only state to do so since 1990. However, California\u00a0does not include sulfuryl fluoride<\/a>\u00a0in the list of GHG emissions to reduce by 2020 as researchers were not aware the chemical was a GHG until\u00a02008<\/a>. A\u00a02009 study<\/a>\u00a0finds the termite insecticide to be a\u00a0more potent GHG<\/a>\u00a0than carbon dioxide by up to 4,000 times over 100 years. Since sulfuryl fluoride has high global warming potential, it can remain in the atmosphere for more than 36 years.<\/p>\n

Ninety-nine percent of structural fumigation treatments use sulfuryl fluoride.\u00a0Recent work<\/a>\u00a0from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) demonstrates North America was the leading global source of sulfuryl fluoride emissions in 2019. The risk of\u00a0multiple chemical contaminants<\/a>\u00a0in the atmosphere increases as global warming progresses.\u00a0Melting glaciers<\/a>\u00a0can release persistent organic pollutants into waterways. Recently, pesticides and fertilizers overtook the fossil fuel industry in environmental\u00a0sulfur emissions<\/a>. Thus, health and environmental concerns will increase significantly, especially for individuals and ecosystems more vulnerable to the toxic effects of chemical exposure. If pesticide use and manufacturing are amplifying the impacts of the climate crisis, advocates argue that pesticide policy and regulation must address and eliminate chemical use. There are many viable alternatives to sulfuryl fluoride and methyl bromide fumigation. These alternatives include temperature manipulation, atmospheric controls, biological controls, and less toxic chemical controls (diatomaceous earth<\/a>). Many existing commodity storage facilities are too old and outdated to prevent pest infestation. This ineffectiveness leads to a reliance on toxic fumigation. Thus, a clean, regularly-maintained storage or processing facility can easily keep facilities pest-free.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

As the climate crisis continues, banned and current-use pesticides put human and animal health at risk upon release into the atmosphere and waterways. Lack of adequate persistent pesticide regulations highlights the need for better policies surrounding use. The European Union already bans sulfuryl fluoride from any food contact. Thus, a switch from chemical-intensive agriculture to regenerative organic agriculture can significantly reduce the threat of the climate crisis by eliminating toxic, petroleum-based pesticide use, building soil health, and sequestering carbon. Current\u00a0organic food<\/a>\u00a0production and handling do not permit conventional pesticide use, including fumigants like sulfuryl fluoride. Therefore, organic production reduces greenhouse gas emissions from chemical use. Learn more about how switching to organic management practices can mitigate the climate crisis by reading\u00a0Regenerative Organic Agriculture and Climate Change: A Down-to-Earth Solution to Global Warming<\/em><\/a>. For more information about organic food production, visit Beyond Pesticides’\u00a0Keep Organic Strong<\/em><\/a>\u00a0webpage. Learn more about the\u00a0adverse effects<\/a>\u00a0chemical-intensive farming poses for various crops and how eating\u00a0organic produce<\/a>\u00a0reduces pesticide exposure and\u00a0benefits the environment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n

Source: EOS<\/a>, AGU<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Beyond Pesticides, January 11, 2022) A study finds that the pesticide sulfuryl fluoride, used for insect (i.e., termites, bedbugs, cockroaches, etc.) fumigation treatments, increases greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to the report, \u201cTermite Fumigation in California Is Fueling the Rise of a Rare Greenhouse Gas.\u201d Not only do most sulfuryl fluoride emissions in the U.S. occur in California, but a majority of global emissions also occur in California. When the use of methyl bromide for agricultural and structural fumigation was phased-out under the Montreal Protocol, sulfuryl fluoride became a replacement for fumigation treatments. However, researchers have identified concentrations of sulfuryl fluoride in the atmosphere due to the chemical\u2019s long half-life and greenhouse warming potential (GWP). The\u00a0California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006\u00a0does not list sulfuryl fluoride emissions as a GHG risk. Therefore, the researchers\u00a0note, \u201cThis work emphasizes the importance of considering [sulfuryl fluoride] SO2F2 in state and national greenhouse gas inventories and emissions reduction strategies.\u201d Researchers employed geostatistical inverse model (GIM)\u2014commonly used to estimate GHG fluxes\u2014alongside atmospheric measurements of sulfuryl fluoride to estimate emissions throughout the United States. Using programmable flask packages (PFPs), researchers examined atmospheric observational data from towers, observatories, and aircraft, measuring concentrations of sulfuryl fluoride via\u00a0gas chromatography-mass […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,373,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change","category-farm-bill","category-sulfuryl-fluoride"],"yoast_head":"\nCommon Home Fumigation Pesticide Associated with Increased Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2022\/01\/common-home-fumigation-pesticide-associated-with-increased-greenhouse-gas-emissions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Common Home Fumigation Pesticide Associated with Increased Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(Beyond Pesticides, January 11, 2022) A study finds that the pesticide sulfuryl fluoride, used for insect (i.e., termites, bedbugs, cockroaches, etc.) fumigation treatments, increases greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to the report, \u201cTermite Fumigation in California Is Fueling the Rise of a Rare Greenhouse Gas.\u201d Not only do most sulfuryl fluoride emissions in the U.S. occur in California, but a majority of global emissions also occur in California. 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