Table 1.

Fipronil and fipronil degradation products in seeds and leaf tissues.

	per seed	fipronil	fipronil-sulfon	fipronil-sulfide	fipronil-desulfinyl	fipronil-carboxamide
tissue	(μg)	(mg kg−1)	(mg kg−1)	(mg kg−1)	(mg kg−1)	(mg kg−1)
commercial dose in seeds	125	24 644
exp. seeds (wash)		8385	199	50	0.43	5.2
exp. seeds (homogenized)		8039	207	51	0.41	5.1
exp. leaf tissues		0.00094 ± 0.00011	0.00066 ± 0.00009	<0.001	<0.001	0.00096 ± 0.00011