Toxicology
- A new class of insecticide with limited toxicological information in humans.
- Their actions are more selective to insects, with comparatively less acute toxicity to mammals (Roberts and Reigart, 2013)
- Imidacloprid, a chloronicotinyl neonicotinoid, is the first agent in the group to be used as a commercial pesticide. Other members of this group are thiamethoxam, clothianidin, thiacloprid, acetamiprid, dinotefuran, nitenpyram, imidaclothiz, flonicamid, sulfoxaflor, and cycloxaprid
- Just like synthetic pyrethroids were developed from naturally occurring pyrethrins, neonicotinoids are developed by modifying nicotine to provide better activity and stability (Roberts and Reigart, 2013). Please Subscribe to continue reading
