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Profenofos

General Information

• Product Names:

  CURACRON 8E INSECTICIDE-MITICIDE

• Chemical Class: Organophosphate insecticide/miticide
• Uses: Restricted use only on cotton crops to control the tobacco budworm, cotton bollworm, armyworm, cotton aphid, whiteflies, spider mites, plant bugs, and fleahoppers.
• Alternatives: Organic Agriculture
• Beyond Pesticides rating: Toxic

Health and Environmental Effects

• Cancer: Not documented
• Endocrine Disruption: Suggestive (1)
• Reproductive Effects: Not documented
• Neurotoxicity: Yes (2)
• Kidney/Liver Damage: Not documented
• Sensitizer/ Irritant: Not documented
• Birth/Developmental: Not documented
• Detected in Groundwater: Not documented
• Potential Leacher: Not documented
• Toxic to Birds: Yes (2)
• Toxic to Fish/Aquatic Organisms: Yes (2)
• Toxic to Bees: Yes (2)

Additional Information

• Regulatory Status:
  • EPA factsheet
    Registration Eligibility Document (2006)
• Supporting information:
  • Occurrence of Cotton Pesticides in Surface Water of The Mississippi Embayment
• Studies [compiled from the Pesticide-Induced Diseases Database]
  • Immune response of Brazilian farmers exposed to multiple pesticides . Jacobsen-Pereira, C.H. et al. (2020) ‘Immune response of Brazilian farmers exposed to multiple pesticides’, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 202, p. 110912. doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2020.110912.
  • Case fatality of agricultural pesticides after self-poisoning in Sri Lanka: a prospective cohort study. Buckley, N. A., Fahim, M., Raubenheimer, J., Gawarammana, I. B., Eddleston, M., Roberts, M. S., & Dawson, A. H. (2021). Case fatality of agricultural pesticides after self-poisoning in Sri Lanka: a prospective cohort study. The Lancet. Global health, 9(6), e854–e862. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00086-3