Active Ingredient: Permethrin
Human Health Risk Assessment and Mitigation
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Overview
- Name: Permethrin
- DPR Chemical Code: 2008
- Chemical Class: Pyrethroid
- Pesticide Types Registered: Insecticide
- Fumigant: No
- California Restricted Material: No
- Toxic Air Contaminant (TAC): No
- Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Regulations: No
- Potential Groundwater Contaminant: No
- Reevaluation: Concluded
Risk Characterization Documents (RCDs) estimate the nature and likelihood of adverse health effects in humans who may be exposed to pesticides.
- May 1994 – Risk Characterization Document (PDF)
- March 1992 – Exposure Assessment Document (Use on Clothing) (PDF)
Other Documents
- January 2008 – Request for Worker Health and Safety Study on Residue Transfer from Insecticidal Cattle Ear Tags (PDF)
- June 2004 – The Occurrence and Concentration of Esfenvalerate and Permethrin in Water and Sediment in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Watersheds (PDF)
- March 2003 – Report of Ambient Air Monitoring for Pesticides in Lompoc, California
- December 1999 – Significance of Dermal Dose Levels in Dermal Absorption Studies of Pesticides (PDF)
- May 1999 – Dermal Absorption of Molinate, Napropamide, Permethrin, Dichlorvos, and Hydrogen Cyanamide in Rats (PDF)
- November 1998 – Final Report for the 1997 Permethrin Air Monitoring
- Appendices
- February 1997 – Use Information and Air Monitoring Recommendation for the Pesticide Active Ingredient Permethrin (PDF)
- 1995 – Pesticide Inhalation Exposure, Air Concentration, and Droplet Size Spectra from Greenhouse Fogging (PDF)
- September 1992 – Foliar and Non-target Deposition from Conventional and Reduced-Volume Pesticide Application in Greenhouses (PDF)
- February 1988 – A General Survey of Foliar Pesticide Residues and Air Concentration Levels Following Various Greenhouse Applications, 1986 (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