Talk:Carbofuran

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[edit] Toxicity

The very first sentence of this article,

"Carbofuran is the most toxic of the carbamate pesticides"

is not true. In fact, carbofuran belongs to the most toxic carbamate insecticides, but the most toxic derivative of all used commercialy is aldicarb. The respective LD₅₀ values for rat, oral, which are used as standard quantifiying methods of mammalian toxicity are 14 mg/kg for carbofuran and ~1 mg/kg for aldicarb.

I change therefore the sentence to following:

"Carbofuran belongs to the most toxic carbamate pesticides" --84.163.99.87 00:03, 3 October 2006 (UTC)