Glyphosate

Product Details:

Common name : Glyphosate

CAS-No. : 1071-83-6

Chemical name (IUPAC):  N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine

Molecular formula: C3H8NO5P

Structural formula:

Specification: 95%TC,10%AS, 41% glyphosate IPA salt, 62%, 74%SG.

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Application:

NON-SELECTIVE, NON-RESIDUAL POST-EMERGENCE HERBICIDE. Very effective on deep-rooted perennial species. Non-selective systemic herbicide, for control of a great variety of annual, biennial, and perennial grasses, sedges, broad-leaved weeds, and woody shrubs. Used in fruit orchards, vineyards, conifer plantations, and many plantation crops (eg coffee, tea, bananas, rubber, coconut, palms, cocoa, mangoes).

Toxicology:

Oral Acute oral LD50 for rats >5000, mice >10 000, goats 3530 mg/kg.

Skin and eye Acute percutaneous LD50 for rabbits >5000 mg/kg.

Eye irritant; non-irritating to skin (rabbits). Not a skin sensitiser (guinea pigs). Inhalation LC50 (4 h) for rats >4.98 mg/l air.

NOEL In 2 y feeding trials, no ill-effects were observed in rats receiving 410 mg/kg diet daily (ave.) and, in 1 y feeding trials, no ill-effects were observed in dogs receiving 500 mg/kg daily (highest dose treated). Lowest relevant NOAEL (2 y) for rats 31 mg/kg b.w. daily (EU).

ADI/RfD ( JMPR) 1 mg/kg b.w. [2004]; (EC) 0.3 mg/kg b.w. [2001]; (EPA) proposed RfD 2 mg/kg b.w. [1993].

Watter GV GV not established (O).

Other Not mutagenic, not carcinogenic, not teratogenic, not neurotoxic. No adverse effects on reproduction.