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Published in T.S.S. Dikshith, and Safety, 2016
Fenitrothion is toxic to animals and humans. After prolonged periods of exposures to high concentrations of fenitrothion, occupational workers show poisoning. The symptoms include, but are not limited to, general malaise, fatigue, headache, loss of memory and ability to concentrate, anorexia, nausea, thirst, loss of weight, cramps, muscular weakness, and tremors, and at sufficiently high dosage produce typical cholinergic poisoning. The formulation product, sumithion 50EC, causes delayed neurotoxicity in adult rats, as well as humans.
The effects of the use of organochlorine and organophosphate pesticides in agriculture and households on water and sediment pollution in the Cikeruh River, Indonesia
Published in International Journal of River Basin Management, 2022
Katharina Oginawati, Anindyta Nursilmi Kahfa, Septian Hadi Susetyo
The half-life of fenitrothion in water is less than 24 hours in the presence of ultraviolet radiation or sunlight (Sanrame et al., 2014; Craig, 2005). The degradation process was also accelerated by the presence of microflora in the water. So the detection of fenitrothion in the Cikeruh River showed that the application of fenitrothion had just been carried out. Meanwhile, fenitrothion in soil or sediment was degraded through biological processes (Dong et al., 2015). Fenitrothion is mainly used in agriculture to control chewing and sucking insects in rice, cereals, fruits, vegetables, grains, cotton and is also used in forest areas (Larki, 2017). The highest fenitrothion concentration was found in the point 2 sediment samples. As previously explained, point 2 was an agricultural area that allowed the use of fenitrothion as an insecticide for rice crops. Meanwhile, fenitrothion with the highest concentration in water samples was found at point 10, which was the Cikeruh River's mouth where the river flows into the Citarum River. The sampling locations were close to settlements, and the land around the river was mostly empty land.