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Scenario 13 - Outdoor Plant/tree Insects - Consumer, 1976
Method 7, Confidence low
  Sales (a)
($ million) %
Lawn products 12 15%
Other products: 69 85%
Garden 56 69%
Nonplant 13 16%
Total 81 100%
Products (a) Active
Ingredient
% of Sales (b)
Lawn Outdoor Plants
Leading
Products
     
Malathion Malathion 1.0 11.0
Diazinon Diazinon 5.0 14.0
Tetrapropyl ester Tetrapropyl ester 1.0 2.0
Chlorpyrifos Chlorpyrifos 4.0 3.0
Carbaryl Carbaryl 1.0 6.0
Orthene Acephate 1.0 6.0
Other Other 2.0 6.0
Secondary Products      
Dylox Trichlorfon   2.4
Dimethoate Dimethoate   2.4
Disulfoton Disulfoton   2.4
Metasystox Oxydemeton-methyl   2.4
Methoxychlor Methoxychlor   2.4
Lindane Lindane   2.0
Other
Products
     
Pyrethrins Pyrethrins   3.0
Kelthane Dicofol   2.0
Rotenone Rotenone   2.0
Total   15.0 69.0
Active
Ingredient
Probability for
Outdoor Plants
(calculated) (c)
Diazinon 20%
Malathion 16%
Carbaryl 9%
Acephate 9%
Pyrethrins 4%
Chlorpyrifos 4%
Dimethoate 3%
Trichloron 3%
Disulfoton 3%
Oxydemeton-methyl 3%
Methoxychlor 3%
Lindane 3%
Dicofol 3%
Rotenone 3%
Tetrapropyl ester 3%
Other 9%
  1. Kline (Ramsey and Kollonitsch, 1977)
  2. Active ingredient percentages are based on judgment, with the condition that the sum across active ingredients for lawns equals 15% and the sum across outdoor ingredients for outdoor plants equals 69% (from "Sales, %" column).
  3. Percent of sales for each outdoor plant active ingredient divided by the total percent of sales for outdoor plants (69%).