[2] It was registered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1986 and has low toxicity to animals[3] with no restrictions on swimming or drinking in treated water bodies.

[4] Fluridone breaks down in the environment over days or weeks with the major degradation product being N-methyl formamide.

[6] Fluridone transport through the soil, vadose zone, and aquifer is limited by its strong sorbance to organic matter.

[7] Fluridone and Norflurazon [de] are inhibitors of chloroplastic and cyanobacterial Phytoene desaturase, which in turn disrupts the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway.

[8] As higher eukaryotes, such as humans, also rely on an abscisic acid pathway[9] to create inflammation in normal physiological processes, fluridone could be investigated as being of interest in the development of anti-inflammatory agents.