Gateway on Pesticide Hazards and Safe Pest Management

Beyond Pesticides offers resources below to evaluate the health and ecological effects of specific chemical exposure from ACTIVE INGREDIENTS in pesticide products, as well as regulatory information and supporting scientific documents. Because various pesticide products can contain more than one active ingredient, it is important to READ the LABEL to determine chemical components.

With 192 different active ingredients and counting, it is essential to establish the connection between the use of these chemicals and their respective hazards.

View the step-by-step guide on how to search for the active ingredient(s) in pesticide products below:

1. Go to U.S. EPA's Pesticide Product and Label System and enter the product name. The generic product name may vary.
   
2. After searching, click on the chemical ingredients tab or the link for the most recent label to find Active Ingredients.
                Chemical List                                            Label List 
   
   If one selects the chemical ingredients tab, skip to Step 4 . If not, proceed to step number 3
   
   
3. To find the active ingredient(s) on the label, search for the page in the document containing the date of registration. Usually, the active ingredients section occurs within the first few pages of the label document.
   
   
4. Return to the Beyond Pesticides Gateway and search for the active ingredient name in the yellow box to the right or from the list below. 
   
   

Chlorantraniliprole

General Information

• Product Names:

  Acelepryn (Syngenta)

  Voliam (Syngenta)

  Durivo (Syngenta)

  Besiege (Syngenta)

  Coragen (Dupont)

  Grubex (Scotts)

• Chemical Class: Anthranilic diamide insecticide
• Uses: Agriculture, turf, ornamental
• Alternatives: Organic agriculture, Organic lawn care
• Beyond Pesticides rating: Toxic

Health and Environmental Effects

• Cancer: Not Likely (1)
• Endocrine Disruption: Possible (2, 3)
• Reproductive Effects: Not Likely (4)
• Neurotoxicity: Not Likely (5, 4)
• Kidney/Liver Damage: Yes (6, 4, 7)
• Sensitizer/ Irritant: No (5, 4)
• Birth/Developmental: Not Likely (4)
• Detected in Groundwater: Yes (8, 9)
• Potential Leacher: Yes (10, 7)
• Toxic to Birds: Possible (7)
• Toxic to Fish/Aquatic Organisms: Yes (11, 7)
• Toxic to Bees: Yes (12, 13)

Residential Uses as Found in the ManageSafe™ Database

• Termites
• Grubs

Additional Information

• Regulatory Status:
  • Beyond Pesticides Testimony (03/2025)
  • EPA Factsheet (04/2008)
• Supporting information:
  • PAN Pesticides Database (Pesticide Action Network)
  • IUPAC Pesticides Properties DataBase (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry)
• Studies [compiled from the Pesticide-Induced Diseases Database]
  • Comparative ecotoxicity of chlorantraniliprole to non-target soil invertebrates. Lavtižar, V., Berggren, K., Trebše, P., Kraak, M.H., Verweij, R.A. and van Gestel, C.A., 2016. Chemosphere, 159, pp.473-479.
  • Conclusion on the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance glyphosate. European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), 2015. EFSA Journal, 13(11), p.4302.
  • 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.
  • Lethal and sublethal effects of seven insecticides on three beneficial insects in laboratory assays and field trials. Fernandes, M. et al. (2016) Lethal and sublethal effects of seven insecticides on three beneficial insects in laboratory assays and field trials, Chemosphere. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0045653516306051.
  • Intensive vegetable production under plastic mulch: A field study on soil plastic and pesticide residues and their effects on the soil microbiome. Beriot, N., Zornoza, R., Lwanga, E. H., Zomer, P., van Schothorst, B., Ozbolat, O., Lloret, E., Ortega, R., Miralles, I., Harkes, P., van Steenbrugge, J., & Geissen, V. (2023). Intensive vegetable production under plastic mulch: A field study on soil plastic and pesticide residues and their effects on the soil microbiome. The Science of the total environment, 900, 165179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165179
  • Comparing the Acute Toxicity of Imidacloprid with Alternative Systemic Insecticides in the Aquatic Insect Chironomus dilutus. Erin M. Maloney, Hunter Sykes, Christy Morrissey, Kerry M. Peru, John V. Headley, Karsten Liber, Comparing the Acute Toxicity of Imidacloprid with Alternative Systemic Insecticides in the Aquatic Insect Chironomus dilutus, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Volume 39, Issue 3, 1 March 2020, Pages 587–594, https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.4639
  • Pesticides detected in two urban areas have implications for local butterfly conservation. Dittemore, C. et al. (2025) Pesticides detected in two urban areas have implications for local butterfly conservation, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Available at: https://academic.oup.com/etc/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/etojnl/vgaf218/8245823.