Sulfoxaflor insecticide exhibits cytotoxic or genotoxic and apoptotic potential via oxidative stress-associated DNA damage in human blood lymphocytes cell cultures.

The need for foodstuff that emerged with the rapidly increasing world population made fertilizers and pesticides inevitable to obtain maximum efficiency from existing agricultural areas. Sulfoxaflor is currently the only member of the new sulfoximine insecticide subclass of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonists. In the study, it was aimed to determine the genetic, oxidative damage potential, genotoxic and apoptotic effects of three different concentrations (10µg/mL, 20µg/mL and 40 µg/mL) of sulfoxaflor insecticide in the cultures of blood lymphocytes.