TABLE 3. PERSISTENCE OF SELECTED ORGANIC PESTICIDES IN SOIL 



Period of complete 

 Pesticides disappearance in days Reference 



Metaphos 10-150 Korotova and Demtshenko, 1978a 



Kostovetsky, et a_l_. , 1976 

 Yurovskaya and Jhulinskaya, 1974 



Dylox 4-45 Korotova and Demtshenko, 1978b 



Kostovetsky, et a]_., 1976 

 Yurovskaya anH~Jhulinskaya, 1974 



Malathion 7-60 Kostovetsky, et al_,, 1976 



Keazney, et aj^. , 1969 

 Novozhylov, et £l_., 1974 



Diazinon 85 Keazney, et al_., 1969 



Takase, 1976 



Phosalon 18-90 Manko, et al, 1974 



TABLE 4. TOXICITY OF ORGANOPHOSPHORUS PESTICIDES TO AQUATIC ANIMALS 

 (From Water Quality Criteria, 1972, EPA-R-73-033, 1973) 



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