Carbamate pesticides
Three carbamate
pesticides are examined in the National Report. One is detected
in each racial/ethnic group at the 50th percentile, one is detected
in each group at the 95thpercentile, and one is not detected .
The chemical detected broadly enough to develop a geometric mean had the highest
geometric mean in Whites.
Two chemicals are detected at the 95th percentile. One is detected in
Mexican-Americans at a level up to 284% greater than in Blacks and Whites
while the other is detected in Whites at a level 91% greater than in Blacks
and Mexican-Americans.
Carbamate pesticides are widely used in agriculture and residential lawns as
insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides. The food
levels of these chemicals are currently under review by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. However, environmental justice organizations
have focused on the exposure of workers to these chemicals. The National
Report is evidence that the White population has the greatest overall
exposure to carbamate pesticides and that a portion of the Mexican-American
population is exposed to disproportionately high levels of carbamate
pesticides.
Carbamate pesticides
(note - no data indicates non-detect)
| Carbamate pesticides |
Race/
ethnicity
|
Geometric mean
(ug/g)
|
95th percentile
(ug/g)
|
Findings |
1-Naphthol
(carbaryl metabolite)
|
Black |
1.22 |
10.7 |
The average 1-naphthol level in Whites
is 31% greater than in Blacks and 14% greater than in Mexican-Americans.
The 1-naphthol level in Whites at the 95th
percentile is up to 91% greater than in Blacks and Mexican-Americans
1-naphthol is detected at the 50th
percentile in all groups.
|
| Mexican-American |
1.34 |
7.08 |
| White |
1.60 |
13.5 |
2-Isopropoxyphenol
(propoxur metabolite)
|
Not detected in up to 5% of U.S. population |
Carbofuranphenol
(metabolite for benfuracarb, carbofuran, carbosulfan,
and furathiocarb)
|
Black |
|
.645 |
The carbofuranphenol level in Mexican-Americans
at the 95th percentile is up to 284% greater than
in Blacks or Whites.
Carbofuranphenol is detected in Blacks and Whites
at the 95th percentile and Mexican-Americans at the
90th percentile.
|
| Mexican-American |
|
1.83 |
| White |
|
.717 |
| 
