Active Ingredient: Endosulfan
Human Health Risk Assessment and Mitigation
Documents and Activities

Risk Characterization Documents (RCDs) estimate the nature and likelihood of adverse health effects in humans who may be exposed to pesticides.

• Toxic Air Contaminant (TAC) Assessment
  • August 2008 – Director's Proposed Decision (PDF)
  • August 2008 – Scientific Review Panel's Findings (PDF)
  • June 2008 – Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment's Findings (PDF)
  • May 2008 – Executive Summary (PDF)
  • August 2008 – Volume I: Health Risk Assessment (PDF)
  • May 2008 – Volume II: Exposure Assessment (PDF)
  • May 2008 – Volume III: Environmental Fate (PDF)

Other Documents

• January 2008 – Request for Worker Health and Safety Study on Residue Transfer from Insecticidal Cattle Ear Tags (PDF)
• January 2008 – Health-Protective Estimates of Seasonal and Annual Reentry Exposure to Endosulfan: Typical Reentry Days (PDF)
• September 2002 – Endosulfan Reregistration Eligibility Decision, Mitigation Measures Proposed for Occupational Exposure (PDF)
• September 2002 – Endosulfan Exposure Estimates in Draft Exposure Assessment Document (11-2-2001) and Reregistration Eligibility Decision (PDF)
• May 1998 – Report for the Air Monitoring of Endosulfan In Fresno County (Ambient) and in San Joaquin County (Application) (PDF)
  • Appendices (PDF)
• February 1988 – A General Survey of Foliar Pesticide Residues and Air Concentration Levels Following Various Greenhouse Applications (PDF)
• November 1987 – A Study to Establish Degradation Profiles for Six Pesticides (Triforine, Endosulfan, Chlorothalonil, Sulfotep, Dodemorph Acetate, and Daminozide) Used on Ornamental Foliage in San Diego County California During Fall 1986 (PDF)
• December 1985 – Monterey County Residential Air Monitoring (PDF)
• May 1985 – A Degradation Study of Dislodgeable Endosulfan (Thiodan) Residues on Row Crops in Fresno and San Luis Obispo Counties During June 1984 (PDF)
• March 1985 – Degradation of Dislodgeable Foliar Residues of Endosulfan on Chinese Cabbage (PDF)
• March 1977 – Decay of Endosulfan (Thiodan) Residue on Leaves of Strawberry Plants in Monterey County, California (PDF)
• July 1976 – A Study of the Decay Rates of Ethyl-methyl Parathion and Endosulfan Applied as a Foliar Spray to a Tomato Field in the Sacramento Valley of California (PDF)
• June 1976 – Endosulfan Residue on the Outer Leaves of Head Lettuce in Imperial County, California (PDF)

• October 2014 – Completion of Mitigation (PDF)

Enforcement Letters

• March 2013 – ENF 2013-03 – Endosulfan - Uses Cancelled and Tolerances Revoked

• 2015 – A Comparison of ToxCast Test Results with In Vivo and other In Vitro Endpoints for Neuro, Endocrine, and Developmental Toxicities: A Case Study Using Endosulfan and Methidathion
• 2010 – Hayes' Handbook pf Pesticide Toxicology, 3rd Edition, Risk Assessment for Acute, Subchronic, and Chronic Exposure to Pesticides: Endosulfan
• 2009 – An Assessment of the Developmental, Reproductive, and Neurotoxicity of Endosulfan (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
  • Environmental Fate Reviews
• 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