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 Post subject: Chlorpropham= Bud Nip
PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:04 pm 
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A child's experiment turns into a lesson on the toxins in our food supply


http://www.dirtdoctor.com/Sweet-Potato-Project-on-Organics_vq4603.htm

Chlorpropham is a plant growth regulator used for preemergence control of grass weeds in alfalfa, lima and snap beans, blueberries, cane berries, carrots, cranberries, ladino clover, garlic, seed grass, onions, spinach, sugar beets, tomatoes, safflower, soybeans, gladioli and woody nursery stock. It is also used to inhibit potato sprouting and for sucker control in tobacco Chlorpropham is available in emulsifiable concentrate and liquid formulations.
Chlorpropham is moderately toxic by ingestion. It may cause irritation of the eyes or skin.

Symptoms of poisoning in laboratory animals have included listlessness, incoordination, nose bleeds, protruding eyes, bloody tears, difficulty in breathing, prostration, inability to urinate, high fevers, and death. Autopsies of animals have shown inflammation of the stomach and intestinal lining, congestion of the brain, lungs and other organs, and degenerative changes in the kidneys and liver.

Reproductive Effects Long-term exposure to chlorpropham may cause adverse reproductive effects. Chlorpropham may cross the placenta

Read More:
http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/ex ... m-ext.html
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf000018t
http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/registratio ... index.html
http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Che ... Id=PC35064
http://www.speclab.com/compound/c101213.htm
http://www.inchem.org/documents/jmpr/jm ... 00pr02.htm
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/gateway ... ropham.htm


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