Agency, Washington, DC. The views expressed herein are those of the investigators and do not necessarily reflect the official viewpoint of the Environmental Protection Agency. Financial support by the Graduate College, University of Iowa, is also gratefully acknowledged.
The fate of 32P- and 14C-labeled O,O-dimethyl S-[alpha-(carboethoxy)benzyl] phosphorodithioate (phenthoate) was determined in citrus, water, and upon exposure to air and sunlight. The products recovered from citrus and glass plates exposed to sunlight were unchanged phenthoate, phenthoate oxon, demethyl phenthoate, mandelic acid, bis-[alpha-(carboethoxy)benzyl] disulfide, O,O-dimethyl phosphorothioic and phosphorodithioic acid. Similar products generally were found in citrus leaf and fruit extracts. Phenthoate was fairly stable in phosphate buffered water with a half-life of approximately 12 days at pH 8.0. The major hydrolysis products were phenthoate acid, demethyl phenthoate and demethyl phenthoate oxon.
A study comparing the leaf residue decay of parathion wettable powder (8 lbs per acre) on oranges was carried out on neighboring plots in Arizona beginning in October, 1975, and February, 1976. While identical amounts of parathion were present immediately after spraying and the half-life of parathion was the same in both months, there was, on the average, more parathion residue during February. Graphs of parathion and paraoxon levels over time differed between months (in excess of sampling variability). This most likely was due to the daily influences of climatological variables which were obviously different in October and February.
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