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Soil Fumigants
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Soil Fumigant Chemicals

EPA has required important new safety measures for most of the soil fumigant pesticides.

Chloropicrin

  • Final Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED)
  • Fumigant Management Plan Templates
  • Information on Chloropicrin

Dazomet

  • Final Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED)
  • Fumigant Management Plan Templates
  • Information on Dazomet

1,3-Dichloropropene (Telone)

  • Final 1998 Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) (PDF) (203 pp, 3 MB, About PDF)
  • Updated risk assessment (2007)
  • Fumigant Management Plan Templates (only 1,3-Dichloropropene labels formulated with chloropicrin require Fumigant Management Plans)
  • Information on 1,3-Dichloropropene (Telone)

Dimethyl disulfide

  • Not subject to reregistration (registered after 1984)
  • Fumigant Management Plan Templates
  • Information on Dimethyl disulfide

Metam Sodium/Potassium

  • Final Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED)
  • Fumigant Management Plan Templates
  • Information on Metam Sodium/Potassium

Methyl Bromide

  • Final Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED)
  • Fumigant Management Plan Templates
  • Information on Methyl Bromide

Related Information

Regulatory status of fumigants

Soil fumigant labels

  • Soil Fumigants Home
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  • — Calculating Buffer Zones
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Last updated on March 13, 2023
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