Pesticides Toxicity – Crop Information

The Indian standardized system of toxicity labels for pesticides uses a 4-color system (red, yellow, blue, green) to plainly label containers with the toxicity class of the contents.

Label	Name	Level of toxicity	Oral lethal dose mg per kg body weight of test animal	Listed chemicals
	Red label	Extremely toxic	1-50	Monocrotophos, zinc phosphide, ethyl mercury acetate, and others.
	Yellow label	Highly toxic	51-500	Endosulfan, carbaryl, quinalphos, and others.
	Blue label	Moderately toxic	501-5000	Malathion, thiram, glyphosate and others.
	Green label	Slightly toxic	More than 5000	Mancozeb, oxyfluorfen, mosquito repellant oils and liquids, and most other household insecticides.