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Phorate

General Information

• Chemical Class: Organophosphorus
  Uses: control Mexican bean beetle, corn rootworm, mites, European cornborers, wireworms, white grubs, corn leaf aphids, seedcorn beetles, leaf miners, thrips, black cutworms, leafhoppers, white flies, nematodes, southern corn rootworm, flea beetle larvae, psyllids, Colorado potato beetle, lygus, chinchbug nymphs, Bank’s grass mites, seedcorn maggots, sugar beet root maggot, sugar beet leafhopper, grasshoppers and Hessian fly
• Alternatives: Organic Agriculture
• Beyond Pesticides rating: Toxic

Health Effects

• EPA Acute Toxicity Class: I (highly toxic)
• Cancer: Not Documented
• Endocrine Disruption: Not Documented
• Reproductive Effects: Not Documented
• Neurotoxicity: Yes (4)
• Kidney/ Liver Damage: Not Documented
• Sensitizer/ Irritant: Yes (8)
• Birth/ Developmental Defects: No

Environmental Effects

• Detected in Groundwater: Yes (8)
• Detected in Streams: Not documented
• Potential Leacher: Yes (8)
• Toxic to Birds: Yes (8)
• Toxic to Fish/ Aquatic Organisms: Yes (8)
• Toxic to Bees: Yes (8)
• Toxic to Mammals: Yes (8)
• Long-Range Transport: Not documented

Additional Information

• Regulatory Information:
  • EPA Reregistration Eligibility Decision (revised 03/2008)
• Supporting information:
• Extoxnet: Phorate (Extension Toxicology Network)
• PAN Pesticide Database (Pesticide Action Network)