Banned and Severely Restricted Pesticides

COLORADO ENVIRONMENTAL PESTICIDE EDUCATION PROGRAM

Pesticide Fact Sheet #141 CEPEP 05/03 Updated 6/06

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) prepares a list of banned and severely restricted pesticides list as part of its participation in an international program known as the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure. Banned Pesticides A "Banned" pesticide is defined as a pesticide for which all registered uses have been prohibited by final EPA action to protect human health or the environment. It includes pesticides that have been refused approval for first-time use or have been withdrawn by industry. See the back of this factsheet for a list of pesticides that have been banned in the United States. Severely Restricted Pesticides A "Severely Restricted" pesticide means a pesticide for which virtually all registered uses have been prohibited by final EPA regulatory action, but for which certain specific registered use or uses remain authorized.
U.S. Severely Restricted Pesticides arsenic trioxide carbofuran (granular only) daminozide/alar heptachlor lindane pentachlorophenol sodium arsenate tributyltin compounds

BANNED AND SEVERELY RESTRICTED PESTICIDES

E.J. Buffington S.K. McDonald
This fact sheet lists banned and severely restricted pesticides in the United States.

References and Resources Colorado ChemSweep Pesticide Waste Collection Program. 2002. Colorado Environmental and Pesticide Education Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/SoilCrop/extension/ CEPEP/pest_management.htm#ChemSweep. UN PIC & U.S. Pic-Nominated Pesticides List. 2003. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. http:// www.epa.gov/oppfead1/international/piclist.htm.

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U.S. Banned Pesticides aldrin benzene hexachloride [BHC] 2,3,4,5-Bis(2-butylene)tetrahydro-2furaldehyde [Repellent-11] bromoxynil butyrate cadmium compounds calcium arsenate captafol carbon tetrachloride chloranil chlordane chlordecone [Kepone] chlordimeform chlorinated camphene [Toxaphene] chlorobenzilate chloromethoxypropylmercuric acetate [CPMA] copper arsenate cyhexatin DBCP DDT dieldrin dinoseb and salts ethyl hexyleneglycol [6-12] fluoroacetamide hexachlorobenzene [HCB] lead arsenate leptophos mercurous chloride mercuric chloride mevinphos mirex monocrotophos nitrofen (TOK) OMPA (octamethylpyrophosphoramide) phenylmercury acetate [PMA] phenylmercuric oleate [PMO] potassium 2,4,5-trichlorophenate [2,4,5-TCP] pyriminil [Vacor] safrole silvex sodium arsenite TDE Terpene polychlorinates [Strobane]

Di(phenylmercury)dodecenylsuccinate thallium sulfate [PMDS] 1,2-dibromoethane ethylene dibromide 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid [EDB] [2,4,5-T] endrin EPN vinyl chloride

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