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Oregon Health Authority Finds Forestry Pesticides in Residents in Long Delayed Report
May 28, 2013

Environmental Impact Statement Delays New Monsanto and Dow 2,4-D Resistant Crops
May 14, 2013

GE Industry Practice of “Stacking” Insecticides Called into Question by Researchers
April 8, 2013

Pesticide Exposure Linked to Rising Food Allergies in U.S
December 6, 2012

Delaware Students Outraged at Negligent Pesticide Policies
October 19, 2012

Increased Pesticide Use and Resistant Weeds -The Troubling Legacy of GE Crops
October 3, 2012

Pesticides Show Up in Oregon Resident's Urine After Aerial Spraying of Forests
September 17, 2012

Drinking Water in Several Oregon Schools Found To Be Contaminated with Multiple Pesticides
September 10, 2012

Research Shows Weeds Growing Resistant to 2,4-D
August 27, 2012

U.S. to Clean Up Sites in Vietnam Contaminated with Agent Orange
August 15, 2012

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2,4-D

General Information

• Fact Sheet: 2-4-D.pdf
• Product Names:

  Crossbow (Dow), formulated with Triclopyr, Petroleum distillates
  GlyMIX MT (Dow), formulated with Glyphosate
  Grazon P+D (Dow)
  Pathway (Dow)
  Aqua-Kleen (Nufarm America)
  Barrage (Helena Chemical)
  Malerbane (Aventis)
  Weedone (Nufarm America)
  Weedtrine- II (Nufarm America)

• Chemical Class: Phenoxy herbicide
• Uses: Registered for field, fruit, and vegetable crops, turf, lawns, rights-of-way, aquatic sites, forestry applications, post-emergence broadleaf weeds, plant growth regulator in citrus
• Alternatives: Organic agriculture,  Organic Lawn care
• Beyond Pesticides rating: Toxic

Health and Environmental Effects

• Cancer: Yes (54)
• Endocrine Disruption: Probable (5)
• Reproductive Effects: Yes (6)
• Neurotoxicity: Yes (7)
• Kidney/Liver Damage: Yes (7)
• Sensitizer/ Irritant: Yes (4)
• Birth/Developmental Yes (4)
• Detected in Groundwater: Yes (4)
• Potential Leacher: Yes (7)
• Toxic to Birds: Yes (4)
• Toxic to Fish/Aquatic Organisms: Yes (8)
• Toxic to Bees: Yes (4)

Additional Information

• Regulatory Status:
  • EPA Reregistration Eligibility Document (RED) signed (6/2005)
  • Beyond Pesticides' RED comments.
• Supporting information:
  • Daily News Blog entries (Beyond Pesticides)
  • Asthma, Children and Pesticides (Beyond Pesticides)
  • Children & Lawn Chemicals Don't Mix (Beyond Pesticides)
  • The Safer Choice (Beyond Pesticides)
  • NCAP 2,4-D Factsheet (Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides)
  • Extoxnet 2,4-D Factsheet (Extension Toxicology Network)
  • PAN Pesticides Database: 2,4-D (Pesticide Action Network)
• Studies:
  • Herbicide exposure and the risk of transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder in Scottish terriers, Glickman, et. al. 2004. Journal of the American Medical Association.
  • Pesticides in Household Dust and Soil: Exposure Pathways for Children of Agricultural Families, Simcox, et. al. 1995.Environmental Health Perspectives.
  • A Case–Control Study of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and Exposure to Pesticides Journal of the American Cancer Society, 1999.
  • Biomarker correlations of urinary 2,4-D levels in foresters: genomic instability and encodrine disruption. Garry, V.F., et al. 2001. Environ Health Pers.