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1,2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane (dibromochloropropane), better known as DBCP, is the organic compound with the formula BrCH(CH 2 Br)(CH 2 Cl). It is a dense colorless liquid although commercial samples often appear amber or even brown. It is the active ingredient in the nematicide Nemagon, also known as Fumazone.
Dibromochloropropane (DBCP) is used as a pesticide against nematodes in the agricultural industry. [29] DBCP is one of the most well-known reproductive toxicants known to cause testicular toxicity. [12] Workers in chemical factories exposed to dibromochloropropane have been shown to develop dose-dependent oligospermia and azoospermia. [12]
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Dibromochloromethane was formerly used as a flame retardant and as an intermediate in chemicals manufacturing. Today it is used only as a laboratory reagent.
Pre-1980s, agricultural use of chloropropane-containing soil fumigants for use as pesticides and nematicides was prevalent in the United States. Some soil fumigants, which contained a mixture of primarily 1,3-dichloropropene and 1,2-dichloropropane, and in which 1,2,3-TCP was a minor component, e.g., trade name of D-D, were marketed for the cultivation of various crops including citrus fruits ...
UN Number Class Proper Shipping Name UN 2801: 8: Dyes, liquid, corrosive, n.o.s. or Dye intermediates, liquid, corrosive, n.o.s. : UN 2802: 8: Copper(II) chloride: UN ...
In 2007, Amvac paid $300,000 in a pre-trial settlement with six workers who were exposed to dibromochloropropane on a Dole Food Company-operated banana plantation in the 1970s. [9] In 2017, the company acquired the US rights to abamectin, Chlorothalonil, and paraquat from ADAMA Agricultural Solutions. [10]
While visiting Costa Rica with WDM in 1997 to investigate local banana plantations' use of the pesticide dibromochloropropane (DBCP), already banned in the US for making farm-workers sterile, she met a woman called Maria whose husband had been exposed to DBCP while working on the plantations. The couple had had a baby boy born with severe ...