Active Ingredient: Acephate
Human Health Risk Assessment and Mitigation
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Overview
- Name: Acephate
- DPR Chemical Code: 1685
- Chemical Class: Organophosphate
- Pesticide Types Registered: Fertilizer, Fungicide, Insecticide
- Fumigant: No
- California Restricted Material: No
- Toxic Air Contaminant (TAC): No
- Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Regulations: No
- Potential Groundwater Contaminant: Yes
- Reevaluation: Not applicable
Risk Characterization Documents (RCDs) estimate the nature and likelihood of adverse health effects in humans who may be exposed to pesticides.
- May 2019 – Review of New Acephate Products Registered after Finalization of the 2013 Addendum to Acephate Risk Characterization Document and any Implication for Additional Changes to Margin of Exposure (MOE) Estimates, PDF
- March 2018 - Recalculating Short-Term, Seasonal, and Annual Margin of Exposures of Acephate Based on Updated Policies, Updated Transfer Coefficients, and Updated Pesticide Use Report Data
- July 2013 – Addendum to Risk Characterization Document (PDF)
- October 2008 – Risk Characterization Document (PDF)
- January 2009 – Exposure Assessment Document (PDF)
Other Documents
- November 2003 – Final Report for the 2002 Ambient Air Monitoring for Acephate and Methamidophos in Fresno County
- Appendices
- Corrections
- February 1998 – Contact Dermatitis in California Nursery Workers: Part I. Surveillance of Skin Disease (PDF)
- April 1996 – Greenhouse Pesticide Mixer/Loader/Applicator Exposure Study (PDF)
- May 1982 – Summaries of Review of Pesticides Considered for Use in the Gypsy Moth Eradication Program in Santa Barbara County in 1982 (PDF)
- May 2019 - Risk Management Directive for Acephate - Acute Occupational Exposures (PDF)
- July 2021 - Pesticide Registration and Evaluation Committee Meeting Agenda (PDF)
- Pesticide Registration and Evaluation Committee Meeting Minutes (PDF)
- Presentation on Acephate Human Health Mitigation
- November 2019 - Pesticide Registration and Evaluation Committee Meeting Agenda (PDF)
- Pesticide Registration and Evaluation Committee Meeting Minutes (PDF)
- Presentation on Acephate Mitigation
- July 2014 – Completion of Comprehensive Risk Assessment (PDF)
- Pesticide Product Database
- Human Health Assessment Branch Memos
- Human Health Assessment Branch Publications, Posters/Abstracts and Presentations
- Worker Health and Safety Reports and Memos
- Environmental Monitoring Branch Publications
- Air Monitoring Network
- Pesticide Use Reporting (PUR)
- California Pesticide Illness Query (CalPIQ)
- Environmental Justice (EJ)
- OEHHA Proposition 65 Information
- U.S. EPA Pesticide Chemical Search
- PubChem-Chemical Information
For document retrieval, please submit a request at our Public Records Portal (NextRequest).
For content questions, contact:
Christine Herrera
Worker Health and Safety Branch
1001 I Street, P.O. Box 4015
Sacramento, CA 95812-4015
Phone: (916) 445-4261
E-mail: Christine.Herrera@cdpr.ca.gov
Brenna McNabb
Pesticide Registration Branch
1001 I Street, P.O. Box 4015
Sacramento, CA 95812-4015
Phone: (916) 445-0179
E-mail:
Brenna.McNabb@cdpr.ca.gov