Diuron could be used only as a harvest-time defoliant on cotton, under the proposal. The proposed interim decision was made because of the cancer risk to humans and effects on wildlife.

Ross J. Jones ¹, Jochen Muller ², David Haynes ³, Ulrich Schreiber ⁴, Effects of herbicides diuron and atrazine on corals of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 251 ...

Diuron is no longer approved for use around apples, citrus, coffee and tea, and ornamental crops, and there are tighter restrictions during the wet season for bananas, pineapples and sugar cane.

The movement and persistence of diuron [3- (3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea] and its degradation product, 3,4-DCA (3,4-dichloraniline) were studied in an orchard soil which had received diuron ...

Diuron has been shown to be an unmanageable pesticide in the GBR catchments due to its toxicity, persistence, ability to travel long distances from its point of application and its sub-lethal impacts.

Sugar lobby group Canegrowers says it will formally ask the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) to review its ban of the popular herbicide diuron.