Sulfur
Applications:
Control of scab on apple, pears, and peaches; powdery mildews on a range of crops, including fruit, vines, hops, beet cereals, citrus, ornamentals, cucumbers, vegetables, and in forestry,; shot-hole of stone fruit; and acarinosis of vines. Also controls mites (particularly eriophyid mites) on a range of crops.
Toxicology:
Oral Acute oral LD50 for rats 1375-5500 mg/kg (pure), mice 775-3320 mg/kg.
Skin and eye Acute percutaneous LD50 (24 h) for rabbits 4100-8800, rats >2000 mg/kg. Inhalation LC50 (4 h) for rats >5.2 mg/l.
NOEL In 2 y trials on rats, the only effects seen at 500 ppm (29 mg/kg b.w. daily) was inhibition of cholinesterase in plasma and red blood cells.
ADI (JMPR) 0.3 mg/kg b.w. [1997].
Toxicity class WHO (a.i.) III