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Published in T.S.S. Dikshith, and Safety, 2016
Ethion is highly to moderately toxic to animals and humans by the oral route. It causes tox-icity and poisoning with symptoms such as nausea, cramps, diarrhea, excessive salivation, severe depression, irritability, confusion, headache, blurred vision, fatigue, tightness in chest, abnormal heart beat and breathing. On repeated exposures and in high concentrations, ethion causes severe symptoms of poisoning. The symptoms of toxicity and poisoning include, but are not limited to, pupillary constriction, muscle cramp, impaired memory and concentration, disorientation, speech difficulties, delayed reaction times, nightmares, sleepwalking, loss of coordination, convulsions, unconsciousness/coma, and death. Studies on laboratory animals and humans have not indicated any evidence of mutagenic, teratogenic, or carcinogenic effects of ethion.
Product: Alfa-Tox
Published in Charles R. Foden, Jack L. Weddell, First Responder’s Guide to Agricultural Chemical Accidents, 2018
Charles R. Foden, Jack L. Weddell
HEALTH HAZARD INFORMATION: Ethion is a cholinesterase inhibitor. Symptoms may include headache, dizziness, weakness, muscle twitching, excessive sweating and salivation, tightness of the chest, nausea, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, convulsions, and coma. CAN BE FATAL. Chronic exposure causes cholinesterase depression.A physician should be contacted if anyone develops any signs or symptoms and suspects that they are caused by exposure to this product.
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Published in Maurizio Cumo, Antonio Naviglio, Safety Design Criteria for Industrial Plants, 2019
Claudia Bartolomei, Sergio Paribelli
Toxicity — Ethion is highly toxic via dermal routes. It is very highly toxic via oral and intraperitoneal routes. It may cause central nervous system effects and blood effects (effects on all blood elements). TLV: air 400 µg/m3 (skin). TDL0: 100 µg/kg (via oral route) (effects on all blood elements also on the oxygen carrying or releasing capacity). Ethion is an insecticide, used also as a food additive permitted in the feed and drinking water of animals and/or for the treatment of food-producing animals. Also permitted in food for human consumption.
Changes in pesticide residues in field-treated fresh grapes during raisin production by different methods of drying
Published in Drying Technology, 2022
Alireza Rahimi, Ali Heshmati, Amir Nili-Ahmadabadi
Washing or rinsing are the first step in foodstuff processing and a common and effective way in the industry to remove dust and excess material.[58] In the current study, the diazinon reduction value during washing was higher than that in previous studies.[59–62] The diazinon loss during washing (15 s) of apples and tomatoes was 10% and 9%, respectively.[59] The reduction of ethion residue during washing with tap water in the present study (6.75%) was less than that in apples (26%), okra (47.75%) [59,63,64] These discrepancies may be due to the difference in washing time and the food matrix. The amount of phosalone removed by washing in this study (9.99%) was lower than that in grapes (36–55.4%), peppers (29.80–40%), apples (35%), and tomatoes (39.06%),[59,65–68] and it was higher than that in apples (3%).[69] Contrary to our results, Cabras et al. (1998) showed that phosalone residue during grape washing (5–10 s) actually increased from 0.97 mg/kg to 1.08 mg/kg.[21] The lower reduction of ethion in comparison with other pesticides can be related to its lipophilicity and penetration into the waxy cuticle layer.[69] The amount of reduction of penconazole (56.54%) in our study during washing was higher than its reduction in tomatoes (6.25–20%).[70] It seemed the cause of more penconazole removal during washing could be related to its higher aquatic solubility (73 mg/L in water at 20 °C) compared to other studied pesticides.[71] The hexaconazole residue removal in our study (20.97%) was approximately similar to that in chili peppers (24.24%) washed with tap water for 10 min.[72]
Effect of Gaseous Ozone Fumigation on Organophosphate Pesticide Degradation of Dried Chilies
Published in Ozone: Science & Engineering, 2018
Panlop Sintuya, Kanjana Narkprasom, Somkiat Jaturonglumlert, Niwooti Whangchai, Danuwat Peng-Ont, Jaturapatr Varith
The degradation of four organophosphate pesticides, namely malathion, chlorpyrifos, profenofos, and ethion, was studied. During the storage of the chili products, self-degradation of pesticides took place without any ozone fumigation. Therefore, the degradation of organophosphate pesticides under ozone fumigation was compared to self-degradation as shown in Figure 2.