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Peter L Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 7 Feb 2011 16:07:24 -0500
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> Chlorpyrifos is an organophosphate insecticide, acaricide and miticide used to control foliage and soil-borne insect pests on a variety of food and feed crops.

> Approximately 10 million pounds are applied annually in agricultural settings. The largest agricultural market for chlorpyrifos in terms of total pounds ai [active ingredient] is CORN (~5.5 million).

> Chlorpyrifos can cause cholinesterase inhibition in humans; that is, it can overstimulate the nervous system causing nausea, dizziness, confusion, and at very high exposures (e.g., accidents or major spills), respiratory paralysis and death.

> Used on a variety of food and feed crops, golf courses, as a non-structural wood treatment, and as an adult mosquitocide, chlorpyrifos residues in food and drinking water do not pose risk concerns [says the EPA]

http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/reregistration/REDs/factsheets/chlorpyrifos_fs.htm

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