Product Name

Herbicide Clethodim

Function

Herbicide

Specification

Clethodim 95%TC, 37%TK, 24%EC, 12%EC, 12%OD

Chemical Name

( E,E )-(?-2-[1-[[(3-chloro-2-propenyl)oxy]imino]propyl]-5-[2-(ethylthio)propyl]-3-hydroxy-2-cyclohexen-1-one

CAS No.

99129-21-2

Empirical Formula

C 17 H 26 ClNO 3 S

Toxicology

Oral  Acute oral LD50 for male rats 1630, female rats 1360, male mice 2570, female mice 2430 mg/kg.   Skin and eye  Acute percutaneous LD50 for rabbits >5000 mg/kg. Moderate skin irritant (rabbits). Not a skin sensitiser (guinea pigs). 

Inhalation  LC50 (4 h) for rats >3.9 mg/l (total aerosol). 

NOEL  for mice 30, rats 16, dogs 1 mg/kg daily. 

ADI  (JMPR) 0.01 mg/kg b.w. [1999]; 0.16 mg/kg (Canada); 0.01 mg/kg (USA). 

Toxicity class  WHO (a.i.) III (company classification); EPA (formulation) III 

Applications

Clethodim Mode of action  Systemic herbicide, rapidly absorbed and readily translocated from treated foliage to the root system and growing parts of the plant.  clethodim  Uses  Post-emergence control of annual and perennial grasses, at 60-240 g/ha, in a wide range of broad-leaved crops (including such field crops as soya beans, cotton, flax, sunflowers, alfalfa, peanuts, oilseed rape, sugar beet, tobacco, and potatoes), vegetable crops, trees and vines. To be used with a non-phytotoxic crop oil concentrate.  Phytotoxicity  Good tolerance in broad-leaved crops. clethodim

Package

200L/Drum, 20L/Drum, 5L/Drum,1L/Bottle, etc