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Scenario 23 - Indoor Plants (Insects Only) - Consumer 1990
Method 5, Confidence medium
Manufacturer (a) Sales
($ thousands) (a)		 Active
Ingredients (b)		 Sales
($ thousands) (c)
Safer 1,344 Fatty acids 1,344
Ortho (Chevron) 1,000 Acephate 500
Resmethrin 500
Hyponex (Scotts) 800 Pyrethrins 800
Resmethrin 800
Dexol 641 Dysiston 641
SC Johnson RAID 1,500 Pyrethrins 750
Allethrin 750
Tetramethrin 375
Resmethrin 750
Phenothrin 375
United 1,183 Pyrethrins 394
Allethrin 394
Tetramethrin 394
Phenothrin 789
Other 746 Fatty acids 362
Pyrethrins 362
Acephate 145
Dysiston 145
Permethrin 145
Other 290
Total 7,214    
Active
Ingredients (d)		 Sales
($ thousands) (e)		 Probability
(calculated) (f)
Pyrethrins 2,306 32%
Resmethrin 2,050 28%
Fatty acids 1,706 24%
Phenothrin 1,164 16%
Allethrin 1,144 16%
Dysiston 786 11%
Tetramethrin 769 11%
Acephate 645 9%
Permethrin 145 2%
Other 290 4%
  1. Kline (Hodge and Rafter, 1992a)
  2. U.S. EPA Pesticide Product Label System
  3. Assignment of dollar sales to individual active ingredients was based on the U.S. EPA Pesticide Product Label System and judgment.
  4. Eliminating duplicates.
  5. Combining active ingredient sales across all manufacturers that produce it.
  6. Sales of each active ingredient divided by total sales.