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The glyphosate is used as a herbicide to control a number of broadleaf weeds and grasses. The principal food use sites
 
The glyphosate is used as a herbicide to control a number of broadleaf weeds and grasses. The principal food use sites
include corn, wheat, sorghum, citrus and stone fruits, potatoes and onions, asparagus, coffee, peanuts, and pineapples. There are also a number of non-food use sites including ornamental, turf, forestry, and industrial rights-of-way (rail road tracks).<ref name="Epa">[http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/REDs/old_reds/glyphosate.pdf EPA 1993 Registration Eligibility Decision for Glyphosate ]</ref>
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include corn, wheat, sorghum, citrus and stone fruits, potatoes and onions, asparagus, coffee, peanuts, and pineapples. There are also a number of non-food use sites including ornamental, turf, forestry, and industrial rights-of-way (rail road tracks)<ref name="Epa">[http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/REDs/old_reds/glyphosate.pdf EPA 1993 Registration Eligibility Decision for Glyphosate ]</ref>.
  
Although it is rather soluble in water (11,6 g/l), in application sites, glyphosate [[adsorption|adsorbs]] to soils and should stay in the top 15 cm. This reduces its exposure to surface waters and the marine environment. Glyphosate is a rather unstable molecule that can be biodegraded. In most environments, its [[half-life]] is less than 30 days, although in some cases it takes up to 174 days to half its environmental concentration. Glyphosate is usually biodegraded to [[AMPA]].<ref name="Epa">[http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/REDs/old_reds/glyphosate.pdf EPA 1993 Registration Eligibility Decision for Glyphosate ]</ref>  
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Although it is rather soluble in water (11,6 g/l), in application sites, glyphosate [[adsorption|adsorbs]] to soils and should stay in the top 15 cm. This reduces its exposure to surface waters and the marine environment. Glyphosate is a rather unstable molecule that can be biodegraded. In most environments, its [[half-life]] is less than 30 days, although in some cases it takes up to 174 days to half its environmental concentration. Glyphosate is usually biodegraded to [[AMPA]]<ref name="Epa">[http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/REDs/old_reds/glyphosate.pdf EPA 1993 Registration Eligibility Decision for Glyphosate ]</ref> .
  
Glyphosate doesn't have a tendency to [[bioaccumulation|bioaccumulate]] or [[biomagnification|biomagnify]].<ref name="Epa">[http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/REDs/old_reds/glyphosate.pdf EPA 1993 Registration Eligibility Decision for Glyphosate ]</ref>
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Glyphosate doesn't have a tendency to [[bioaccumulation|bioaccumulate]] or [[biomagnification|biomagnify]]<ref name="Epa">[http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/REDs/old_reds/glyphosate.pdf EPA 1993 Registration Eligibility Decision for Glyphosate ]</ref>.
  
Concentrations of 10µg/l might cause acute toxicity in one water flea [[species]], while other [[pollution and zooplankton|zooplankton]] can tolerate short exposure to glyphosate concentrations of 25 mg/l. Concentrations which cause acute toxicity in [[pollution and benthic fishes|fish]] range from 5 mg/l to 19 g/l, depending on the species. <ref>[http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC33138 www.pesticideinfo.org 25 August 2009]</ref>
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Concentrations of 10µg/l might cause acute [[toxic|toxicity]] in one water flea [[species]], while other [[pollution and zooplankton|zooplankton]] can tolerate short exposure to glyphosate concentrations of 25 mg/l. Concentrations which cause acute toxicity in [[pollution and benthic fishes|fish]] range from 5 mg/l to 19 g/l, depending on the species<ref>[http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC33138 www.pesticideinfo.org 25 August 2009]</ref>.
  
Concentrations in fresh surface water range between 0.5 and 1700 µg/l. <ref>[http://www.inchem.org/documents/ehc/ehc/ehc159 www.inchem.org 25 August 2009]</ref>
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Concentrations in fresh surface water range between 0.5 and 1700 µg/l<ref>[http://www.inchem.org/documents/ehc/ehc/ehc159 www.inchem.org 25 August 2009]</ref>.
 
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== Environmental standards and legislation ==
 
== Environmental standards and legislation ==
  

Revision as of 08:40, 5 October 2009

Definition of glyphosate:
Glyphosate was first used as a herbicide in 1973. It's one of the world's most widely used herbicides and is used in 130 countries for the weed control of more than 100 crops[1]. It occurs as a white crystalline solid[2].
This is the common definition for glyphosate, other definitions can be discussed in the article

Notes

Glyphosate
Glyphosate
Formula
C3H8NO5P

The glyphosate is used as a herbicide to control a number of broadleaf weeds and grasses. The principal food use sites include corn, wheat, sorghum, citrus and stone fruits, potatoes and onions, asparagus, coffee, peanuts, and pineapples. There are also a number of non-food use sites including ornamental, turf, forestry, and industrial rights-of-way (rail road tracks)[2].

Although it is rather soluble in water (11,6 g/l), in application sites, glyphosate adsorbs to soils and should stay in the top 15 cm. This reduces its exposure to surface waters and the marine environment. Glyphosate is a rather unstable molecule that can be biodegraded. In most environments, its half-life is less than 30 days, although in some cases it takes up to 174 days to half its environmental concentration. Glyphosate is usually biodegraded to AMPA[2] .

Glyphosate doesn't have a tendency to bioaccumulate or biomagnify[2].

Concentrations of 10µg/l might cause acute toxicity in one water flea species, while other zooplankton can tolerate short exposure to glyphosate concentrations of 25 mg/l. Concentrations which cause acute toxicity in fish range from 5 mg/l to 19 g/l, depending on the species[3].

Concentrations in fresh surface water range between 0.5 and 1700 µg/l[4].


Environmental standards and legislation

Included in the water framework list of priority substances


See also

Glyphosate on ED North Database


References