Jul 29, 2024 · Sulfuryl fluoride is a colorless and odorless gas that is a structural and commodity fumigant used to control a wide variety of pests, including termites, powder post beetles, old house borers, bedbugs, carpet beetles, moths, cockroaches, rats and mice.

Sulfuryl fluoride is used to control a wide range of pests. Some of these include bed bugs, termites, rats, and mice. Sulfuryl fluoride has been registered in the United States for use in pesticides since 1959. All sulfuryl fluoride products are restricted use pesticides (RUPs).

Jul 30, 2024 · Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that it has approved additional safety measures to prevent deaths and serious injuries when people re-enter homes fumigated with sulfuryl fluoride. EPA has approved new product labels containing additional protective measures.

This provides updates on sulfuryl fluoride fumigations of goods in shipping containers to Australia and New Zealand for the invasive species Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB, Halyomorpha halys). Current approved treatment measures for shipments of goods to these countries are heat, methyl bromide, and sulfuryl fluoride. To meet these requirements, some businesses fumigate shipping containers […]

Originally developed by the Dow Chemical Company, sulfuryl fluoride is in widespread use as a structural fumigant insecticide to control drywood termites, particularly in warm-weather portions of the southwestern and southeastern United States and in Hawaii.

Sulfuryl fluoride is an insecticide used to fumigate closed structures and their contents such as domestic dwellings, garages, barns, storage buildings, commercial warehouses, ships in port, and railroad cars.

The active chemical commonly used is sulfuryl fluoride, an odorless gas that targets the nervous system. In this article, we discuss a case of potential sulfuryl fluoride exposure to a family following home fumigation and examine the oversight process in an effort to understand how to reduce exposure risk.

Sulfuryl fluoride is a gas used to fumigate closed structures and their contents for drywood and Formosan termites, wood infesting beetles, bedbugs, carpet beetles, clothes moths, cockroaches, and rodents. How does sulfuryl fluoride work?

The most comprehensive database for fluorinated pesticides, including the inorganic compounds Cryolite and Sulfuryl Fluoride, as well as hundreds of organo-fluorine compounds that may well prove to be as toxic, or more toxic, than the chlorinated pesticides they are replacing.

How is the pesticide sulfuryl fluoride related to fluoride? Sulfuryl fluoride breaks down to fluoride after it is applied. EPA established residue limits (known as tolerances) for fluoride on the food commodities approved for treatment with sulfuryl fluoride.