Active Ingredient: Carbofuran
Human Health Risk Assessment and Mitigation
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Overview
- Name: Carbofuran
- DPR Chemical Code: 106
- Chemical Class: Carbamate
- Pesticide Types Registered: No actively registered products
- Fumigant: No
- California Restricted Material: Yes
- Toxic Air Contaminant (TAC): No
- Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Regulations: No
- Potential Groundwater Contaminant: No
- Reevaluation: Not applicable
Risk Characterization Documents (RCDs) estimate the nature and likelihood of adverse health effects in humans who may be exposed to pesticides.
- January 2006 – Risk Characterization Document (PDF)
- January 2006 – Exposure Assessment Document (PDF)
- July 2005 – Comments and Recommendations Regarding the Draft Risk Characterization and Exposure Assessment Documents (PDF)
Other Documents
- December 2004 – Background for Exposure Monitoring of Workers Dipping Nursery Stock (PDF
- September 2004 – Review of Dermal Absorption Data for Carbofuran (PDF)
- March 2002 – Carbofuran Dislogeable Foliar Residue Data from Cotton Fields Sampled in Fresno, Madera and Yolo Counties in Summer 2001 (PDF)
- August 2001 – Carbofuran Results for Alfalfa DFR Collected in Imperial County in March 2001 (PDF)
- November 1999 – Exposure and Illness Following Early Reentry into a Carbofuran-Treated Field (PDF)
- November 1995 – Report on Ambient Air Monitoring for Carbofuran in Imperial County During February and March 1995 (PDF)
- Attachment I - III (PDF)
- May 1994 – Report on Ambient Concentrations near an Application of Carbofuran in Imperial County (PDF)
- December 1985 – Monterey County Residential Air Monitoring (PDF)
- June 1981 – Study of the Possible Presence of Carbofuran and Its Metabolites in Groundwater (PDF)
RMDs identify pesticide exposures that require mitigation in order to further protect human health.
- October 2006 – Risk Management Directive (PDF)
- December 2014 – Completion of Mitigation (PDF)
- March 2012 – Carbofuran Mitigation (PDF)
Enforcement Letters
- 2008 – Carbofuran: Toxicity Profile and Non-Dietary Risk Evaluation (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