# 2,6-Dichlorobenzamide

URL: https://app.greenveil.ai/ingredients/ingredient_dtxsid_dtxsid7022170
Categories: food, industrial
Identifier: DTXSID7022170

> 2,6-Dichlorobenzamide. Greenveil chemical-concern score: 20/100 — Minor concern based on regulatory listings.. Compiled from 6 published data sources.

## Safety assessment

- Chemical concern score: 20/100 — Minor concern based on regulatory listings.
- Confidence in this assessment: High
- Is it a concern? Minor concern: no hazard classifications on record.
- Rationale: EPA CPDat observed this chemical in 0 composition records across product categories including unclassified products.

## Regulatory status

- EU: Conclusion on Pesticides Peer Review — Conclusion on the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance dichlobenil (EFSA)
- EU: Conclusion on Pesticides Peer Review — Peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance fluopicolide (EFSA)
- US: commercial use observed — EPA CPDat observed this chemical in 0 composition records across product categories including unclassified products.
- US: listed in openFDA substance — openFDA substance registry classifies this ingredient as chemical.

## Expert safety opinions

- JECFA (Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives): no opinion on file.
- EFSA (European Food Safety Authority): Conclusion on the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance dichlobenil (EFSA) — 2010 — https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2010.1705; Peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance fluopicolide (EFSA) — 2009 — https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2009.299r.

## Data sources

- EFSA OpenFoodTox (updated 2026-10-04): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8120114
- EPA Chemical and Products Database (updated December 2018): https://wayback.archive-it.org/7993/20170723033521/https://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/Pesticides/ucm169577.htm
- EPA DSSTox Identifiers (updated 2025-12-29): https://epa.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Chemistry_Dashboard_Data_DSSTox_Identifiers_Mapped_to_CAS_Numbers_and_Names/5588566
- FDA GSRS UNII (updated 2026-02-26): https://precision.fda.gov/uniisearch/
- openFDA Substance (updated 2026-05-24): https://api.fda.gov/other/substance.json?search=unii:E9JWF529EB
- PubChem Live Enrichment (updated 2026-05-17): https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/16183

_Assessed by Greenveil._