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1. FETAL AND INFANT EXPOSURE: 0–6 MONTHS
2. FOOD Exposure
2.1. Food Exposure via Pesticide: CRYOLITE
2.3. Food Exposure via ANTIMICROBIAL FORMULATIONS - FOOD CONTACT SURFACE SANITIZING SOLUTIONS
2.4. Food Exposure via Pesticides: EPA "INERTS"
2.5. Food Exposure via Pesticides: NEW PROPOSAL FOR TOLERANCE EXEMPTIONS
3. Exposure via Dental and Pharmaceuticals
4. Exposure from INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
4.1. U.S. Manufacturers of Hydrogen Fluoride, Fluorine, Sodium Fluoride, Fluosilicic Acid, and Sodium Silicofluoride
5. Fluoride Exposure: Various Other Sources

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TABLE 2.2.

Fluoride Exposure. Food via Pesticidal Fumigant: SULFURYL FLUORIDE

No. Commodity Fumigant
Fluoride level
Sulfuryl fluoride level

Code of Federal Regulation (CFR)
for Fluoride

- Ref 1

Code of Federal Regulation (CFR) for Sulfuryl Fluoride
- Ref 2 
1

Almond

In Category: NUT, TREE, GROUP 14(Post Harvest)

Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
3
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
2

Almond, hulls

In Category: NUT, TREE, GROUP 14(Post Harvest)

Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
3
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
3 BARLEY, BRAN(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
45.0
0.05
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
4 BARLEY, FLOUR(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
45.0
0.05
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
5 BARLEY, GRAIN(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
15.0
0.1
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
6 BARLEY, PEARLED BARLEY Sulfuryl fluoride
45.0
0.05
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
7

Beechnut

In Category: NUT, TREE, GROUP 14(Post Harvest)

Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
3
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
8

Brazil (nut)

In Category: NUT, TREE, GROUP 14(Post Harvest)

Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
3
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
9

Butternut

In Category: NUT, TREE, GROUP 14(Post Harvest)

Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
3
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
10

Cashew

In Category: NUT, TREE, GROUP 14(Post Harvest)

Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
3
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
11

Chestnut

In Category: NUT, TREE, GROUP 14(Post Harvest)

Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
3
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
12

Chinquapin

In Category: NUT, TREE, GROUP 14(Post Harvest)

Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
3
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
13 Corn, aspirated grain fractions, postharvest Sulfuryl fluoride
55.0
0.05
CFR 180.145  
14 CORN, FIELD, FLOUR(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
35.0
0.01
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
15 CORN, FIELD, GRAIN(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
0.05
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
16 CORN, FIELD, GRITS(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
15
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
17 CORN, FIELD, MEAL(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
30.0
0.01
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
18 CORN, POP, GRAIN(Post Harvest)
Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
0.05
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
19

Filbert

In Category: NUT, TREE, GROUP 14(Post Harvest)

Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
3
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
20

Fruit, dried , postharvest (other than raisin)

[Note from FAN:
There is no existing EPA category to access what fruits these include, eg: apple, banana, cherry, dates, figs, kiwi, lemon, lime, mango, nectarine, orange, papaya, peach, pear, pineapple, etc.]

Sulfuryl fluoride
3.0
Not stated
CFR 180.145
-
21 Fruit, dried, postharvest Sulfuryl fluoride
Not stated
0.05
-
CFR 180.575
22

Hickory (nut)

In Category: NUT, TREE, GROUP 14(Post Harvest)

Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
3
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
23 GRAPE, RAISIN, postharvest Sulfuryl fluoride
30
0.004
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
24

Macadamia (nut)

In Category: NUT, TREE, GROUP 14(Post Harvest)

Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
3
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
25 MILLET, GRAIN(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
40.0
0.1
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
26

Nutmeat, processed, except peanut

In Category: NUT, TREE, GROUP 14(Post Harvest)

Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
3
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
27

Nuts

In Category: NUT, TREE, GROUP 14(Post Harvest)

Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
3
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
 

NUT, TREE, GROUP 14(Post Harvest)

[Nuts in this category are listed separately)

Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
3
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
28 OAT, FLOUR(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
75.0
0.05
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
29 OAT, GRAIN(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
25.0
0.1
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
30 OAT, GROATS/ROLLED OATS(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
75.0
0.1
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
31

Pecan

In Category: NUT, TREE, GROUP 14(Post Harvest)

Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
3
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
32

Pistachio

In Category: NUT, TREE, GROUP 14(Post Harvest)

Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
3
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
33 PISTACHIO(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
3
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
34 RICE, BRAN(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
31.0
0.01
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
35 RICE, GRAIN(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
12.0
0.04
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
36 RICE, HULLS(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
35.0
0.1
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
37 RICE, POLISHED RICE(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
25.0
0.01
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
38 RICE, WILD, GRAIN(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
25.0
0.05
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
39 SORGHUM, GRAIN, GRAIN(Post Harvest)
Sulfuryl fluoride
40.0
0.1
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
40 TRITICALE, GRAIN(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
40.0
0.1
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
41 WALNUT Sulfuryl fluoride
12
2
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
42

Walnut

In Category: NUT, TREE, GROUP 14(Post Harvest)

Sulfuryl fluoride
10.0
3
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
43 WHEAT, BRAN(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
40.0
0.05
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
44 WHEAT, FLOUR(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
125.0
0.05
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
45 WHEAT, GERM(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
130.0
0.02
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
46 WHEAT, GRAIN(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride

40

[corrected to 40.0 on June 16, 2004]

0.1

[epa site has 40]

CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
47 WHEAT, MILLED BYPRODUCTS(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
130.0
0.05
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575
48 WHEAT, SHORTS(Post Harvest) Sulfuryl fluoride
40.0
0.05
CFR 180.145 CFR 180.575

Reference 1.
PART 180--AMENDED
• 1. The authority citation for part 180 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 21 U.S.C. 321(q), 346(a) and 371.
• 2. Section 180.145 is amended by revising paragraph (a)(3) to read as
follows:
Sec. 180.145 Flourine compounds; tolerances for residues.
(a) * * *
(3) Tolerances are established for residues of fluoride in or on
the following commodities from the postharvest fumigation with sulfuryl
fluoride for the control of insects:
Ref: January 23, 2004. Sulfuryl Fluoride; Pesticide Tolerance. Final rule.
40 CFR Part 180 [OPP-2003-0373; FRL-7342-1]. Federal Register.

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2004/January/Day-23/p1540.htm

Reference 2.
Section 180.575 is amended by revising paragraph (a) to read as
follows:
Sec. 180.575 Sulfuryl fluoride; tolerance for residues.
(a)(1) General. Tolerances are established for residues of sulfuryl
fluoride in or on the following commodities from the postharvest
fumigation with sulfuryl fluoride for the control of insects:
Ref: January 23, 2004. Sulfuryl Fluoride; Pesticide Tolerance. Final rule.
40 CFR Part 180 [OPP-2003-0373; FRL-7342-1]. Federal Register.

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2004/January/Day-23/p1540.htm
             

 

See also for Food Exposure

Table 2. FOOD Exposure
Table 2.1. Food Exposure via Pesticide: CRYOLITE

Table 2.3. Food Exposure via ANTIMICROBIAL FORMULATIONS - FOOD CONTACT SURFACE SANITIZING SOLUTIONS
Table 2.4. Food Exposure via Pesticides: EPA "INERTS"
Table 2.5. Food Exposure via Pesticides: NEW PROPOSAL FOR TOLERANCE EXEMPTIONS