Pesticide databaseHerbicidesChecked 2026-10-01
Glufosinate-ammonium グルホシネート
Stop amino acid production (glyphosate and others): Stop a mechanism for making amino acids that only plants have. Glyphosate, glufosinate, sulfonylureas and others.
In Japan
- Registration
- Registered as a pesticide (first registered June 14, 1984). 17 formulated products contain it.
- Main registered crops
- trees and similar, paddy field crops, trees, potato, edamame, tea and others (115 crop names in the registered uses)
- Toxicity class
- Active ingredient: Glufosinate: Ordinary / Glufosinate-P sodium salt: OrdinaryClasses of the 17 formulated products (diluted products sold): ordinary substance 17Classes under Japan's Poisonous and Deleterious Substances Control Act.
- ADI (acceptable daily intake)
- 0.0091 mg per kg of body weight per day
- ARfD (acute reference dose)
- 0.01 mg per kg of body weight
- Evaluation
- Food Safety Commission of Japan, February 6, 2025
ADI: the amount considered to have no effect on health even if eaten every day for a lifetime. ARfD: the amount considered to have no effect on health when eaten at one time (within 24 hours). Both are set by the Food Safety Commission of Japan, mainly from animal studies.
Evaluations abroad
- WHO acute toxicity class
- II (Moderately hazardous), LD50 >1500 mg/kgBased on the toxicity of the undiluted active ingredient given once, mainly to rats by mouth (LD50 = the dose that kills half; the smaller, the stronger the acute toxicity). It is not an assessment of the safety of residues in food.
- EU
- Not approved in the EU (approval ended July 2018)Designated a “candidate for substitution” (to be replaced if safer alternatives exist).EU ADI: 0.021 mg/kg bw/day; ARfD: 0.021 mg/kg bw
- IARC (carcinogenicity)
- No matching entry in the IARC list (not evaluated or out of scope, including Group 3)
Related explainers
Sources
- FAMIC (Food and Agricultural Materials Inspection Center), pesticide registration information (as of Sept. 30, 2026) (Japanese)
- Food Safety Commission of Japan, risk assessment report on Glufosinate-ammonium (February 6, 2025) (Japanese)
- WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard 2019
- EU Pesticides Database (Glufosinate)
Last checked 2026-10-01. Registrations and evaluations change over time. This page is a translation of our Japanese page; if they differ, the Japanese page is the reference.
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