Re: correction on Agent Orange

Kert Davies (kert@ewg.org)
Wed, 5 Jun 1996 09:52:35 -0400

Stephen Flanagan wrote:
>Agent Orange is paraquat, aka Gramoxone Super, a restricted use
>contact herbicide commonly used to burn back established weeds.

Agent Orange is not paraquat. It was a mixture of roughly equal parts of
two herbicides: 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T in the form of their n-butyl esters.
2,4,5-T was cancelled in the US in 1985.
2,4-D is still widely used.
2,4,5-T is contaminated with dioxin.

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