Table 4

	Carbendazim (mg /kg/day)
	0	150	300	600
Number of females	30	30	30	30
Number of pregnant (%)^a	27 (90)	26 (87)	27 (90)	28 (93)
No. of litters	27	26	27	28
No. of implantation/litter	10.55 ± 0.2	10.15 ± 0.5	10.00 ± 0.4	10.11 ± 0.2
% post implantation loss^b	0.4 ± 6	0.4 ± 6	0.4 ± 8	0.2 ± 8
Live fetuses/litter (%)^c	10.51± 4 (99.6)	10.11 ± 5 (99.6)	9.96 ± 4 (99.6)	10.09 ± 6 (98.6)
Dead fetuses/litter (%)^c	0	0	0	0
Early resorptions/litter (%)^c	0.04 ± 4 (0.4)	0.04 ± 4 (0.4)	0.04 ± 5 (0.4)	0.02 ± 6 (0.2)
Late resorptions/litter (%)^c	0	0	0	0
Litters with resorption (%)	1 (4)	1 (4)	1 (4)	1 (4)
Litters totally resorbed (%)	0	0	0	0
Sex ratio (M/F)/litter	1.03± 2	1.10±1	1.08± 2	1.07± 2
Fetal body weight (g)/litter	1.98± 0.1	0.97± 0.1**	0.99± 0.3**	0.88± 0.5**

^aNumber of females detected as being pregnant by visual inspection of the uterus/total number of females mated with males × 100. Sodium sulfide staining was carried out on all uteri without gross evidence of pregnancy but did not disclose resorption sites in any of the evaluated dams
^b[(No. of implants–No. live fetuses)/No. of implants] × 100
^cPercent of implantations

Table 4: Developmental toxicity in mice fetuses after exposure to metalaxyl on Gds 6–15.