Fenitrothion household public health cockroaches, flies, insect Chemical Insecticide

Product kind

Insecticide

Common Name

Fenitrothion

Chemical name

O, O-Dimethyl O-(3-methyl-4-nitrophenyl) phosphorothioate;

Molecular Formula

C9H12NO5PS

Molecular Weight

277.23

CAS Registry Number

122-14-5

Properties:

Density: 1.3227

Melting point: 3.4 ºC

Boiling point: 140-145 ºC (0.05 torr)

Water solubility: 0.003 g/100 mL

Uses:

Control of chewing, sucking, and boring insects in cereals, soft fruit, tropical fruit, vines, rice, sugar cane, vegetables, turf, and forestry. Also used as a public health insecticide for control of household insects (flies, cockroaches, and other insects) by application to breeding sites; for control of flies in animal houses; for control of stored product insect pests; for control of mosquito larvae (as a vector control agent for malaria); and for control of locusts.

Toxicity:

Oral: Acute oral LD50 for male rats c. 1700, female rats 1720 mg/kg.
Skin and eye: Acute percutaneous LD50 for male rats c. 810, female rats 840 mg/kg. Not a skin or eye irritant (rabbits).
Inhalation: LC50 (4 h) for rats >2210 mg/m3 (aerosol).

Type of formulation:

95% TC, 45% 50% EC

Packing Details

200 L/drum or as per customers’ request

Specification

TECH

50/45EC

Appearance:

Pale yellow liquid

Pale yellow liquid

A.I. content%:

95min.

50/45min.

Water%:

0.1max

0.1/0.3max

Acidity(as H2SO4)%:

0.3max

0.3max