Herbicide (trade name Lasso) that is used to control most annual grasses and certain broadleaf weeds and yellow nutsedge in corn, soybeans, peanuts, cotton, woody fruits, and certain ornamentals.
A common herbicide that is an acetanilide. Measured in µg/L or ppb. The MCL for alachlor is 2 µg/L or ppb.
Compare? A herbicide, marketed under the trade name Lasso, used mainly to control weeds in corn and soybean fields.
Alachlor is an odorless, colorless solid, used as an herbicide for grasses and other broadleaf plants. Ingestion of Alachlor in drinking water can increase risk of cancer and cause liver and/or kidney damage.
A herbicide, marketed under the trade name Lasso, listed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a “probable human carcinogen” and found frequently in streams and rivers, particularly following floods and periods of heavy rain. Alachlor is used extensively for weed control in corn, cotton, and soybean fields.
The second most widely used herbicides used in the United States. It is an odorless white solid that is used to control annual grasses and broadleaf weeds in crops, primarily on corn, sorghum and soybeans with particularly heavy use on corn and soybeans in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin. Long-term exposure to high levels can cause damage to liver, kidney, spleen, lining of nose and eyelids. It has also been linked to cancer.
Alachlor is an herbicide, marketed under the trade name Lasso, used mainly to control weeds in corn and soybean fields. EPA has found alachlor to potentially cause the following health effects when people are exposed to it at levels above the maximum contaminant level (MCL) for relatively short periods of time: slight skin and eye irritation.
