Malathion is an insecticide used for agricultural and nonagricultural purposes that is released to the environment primarily through spraying on agricultural crops and at agricultural sites, spraying for home
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Malathion has been identified in at least 21 of the 1,623 hazardous waste sites that have been proposed for inclusion on the EPA National Priorities List (NPL) (HazDat 2003). However, the number of sites evaluated for malathion is not known. The frequency of these sites can be seen in Figure 6-1. All of the 1,623 sites are located within the United States; none of the sites are located in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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