Risk Assessment Report: Pesticides
Ethoxysulfuron
Summary
2014 Volume 2 Issue 2 Pages 36
Details
2014 Volume 2 Issue 2 Pages 36
The Food Safety Commission of Japan (FSCJ) conducted a risk assessment of ethoxysulfuron (CAS No. 126801–58-9), a sulfonylurea herbicide, based on summary reports submitted by the applicant and documents from the Australian Government. Major adverse effects of ethoxysulfuron observed were decreased body weight gain, chronic septal hepatitis of dogs, and decreased serum T3 and T4 levels. Ethoxysulfuron did not show any clear reproductive toxicity, developmental toxicity, and genotoxicity. Although increased incidences of uterine adenocarcinomas were observed in rats in a two-year combined chronic toxicity/carcinogenicity study of ethoxysulfuron, a genotoxic mechanism was unlikely to participate in the tumor development. It was thus considered possible to establish a threshold in the assessment. Based on the above results, only ethoxysulfuron (parent compound) was identified as the residue definition for dietary risk assessment in agricultural products. The lowest no-observed-adverse-effect level (NOAEL) obtained in all the tests was 5.60 mg/kg bw/day in a 90-day subacute toxicity study in dogs. FSCJ specified an acceptable daily intake (ADI) of 0.056 mg/kg bw/day by applying a safety factor of 100 to the NOAEL.
