Active Ingredient: Simazine
Human Health Risk Assessment and Mitigation
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Overview
- Name: Simazine
- DPR Chemical Code: 531
- Chemical Class: Triazine
- Pesticide Types Registered: Herbicide
- Fumigant: No
- California Restricted Material: No
- Toxic Air Contaminant (TAC): Yes
- Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Regulations: No
- Potential Groundwater Contaminant: Yes
- Reevaluation: Not applicable
Risk Characterization Documents (RCDs) estimate the nature and likelihood of adverse health effects in humans who may be exposed to pesticides.
- June 2013 – Risk Characterization Document (PDF)
- May 2013 – Exposure Assessment Document (PDF)
Other Documents
- May 2022 - Risks From Human Exposure to Simazine Residues in Groundwater (PDF)
- Please also refer to the following: July 2023 - Risks From Human Exposure to Atrazine and its Degradates in Groundwater (PDF)
- June 2004 – Exposure of Herbicide Handlers in the Caltrans Vegetation Control Program (PDF)
- March 2003 – Report of Ambient Air Monitoring for Pesticides in Lompoc, California
- June 2002 – Simazine Runoff Losses from a Cover Cropped Citrus Orchard (PDF)
- July 2016 – Mitigation Scoping Document (PDF)
- February 2014 – Completion of Comprehensive Risk Assessment for the Active Ingredient Simazine (PDF)
- 2012 – Hazard Identification for Reproductive and Developmental Toxicity of Simazine (PDF)
- November 2001 – Initiation of Risk Assessment Process for the Active Ingredient Simazine
- Pesticide Product Database
- Human Health Assessment Branch Memos
- Human Health Assessment Branch Publications, Posters/Abstracts and Presentations
- Worker Health and Safety Reports and Memos
- Environmental Monitoring Branch Publications
- Air Monitoring Network
- Pesticide Use Reporting (PUR)
- California Pesticide Illness Query (CalPIQ)
- Environmental Justice (EJ)
- OEHHA Proposition 65 Information
- U.S. EPA Pesticide Chemical Search
- PubChem-Chemical Information
For document retrieval, please submit a request at our Public Records Portal (NextRequest).
For content questions, contact:
Christine Herrera
Worker Health and Safety Branch
1001 I Street, P.O. Box 4015
Sacramento, CA 95812-4015
Phone: (916) 445-4261
E-mail: Christine.Herrera@cdpr.ca.gov
Brenna McNabb
Pesticide Registration Branch
1001 I Street, P.O. Box 4015
Sacramento, CA 95812-4015
Phone: (916) 445-0179
E-mail:
Brenna.McNabb@cdpr.ca.gov