You should be fine. The active ingredients (check the label to be sure) are permethrin which is fine and Myclobutanil which is nastier, but the EPA has cleared it's limited use on edibles, at least for commercial operations. I would *not* get in the habit of using it, but this early on it's OK. Not desirable, but OK.

However, I am just some random guy on the net so google the ingredient name, do some homework and establish your own comfort or lack thereof.

The insecticide in that stuff is Permethrin, a synthetic pyrithroid, and will degrade fairly rapidly. It isn't a systemic. The fungicide is, however, a systemic and seems to stick around in food.

I would pull 'em up and plant new ones, and sleep a little better.

Here is a link that might be useful: fungicide residue

I wouldn't worry about it. I believe people become overly paranoid about insecticides these days. Most of them are designed so that you simply cannot have a case of accidental poisoning. A lot of this scare comes from the old DDT days when people used insecticides for everything, and found out later it was deadly. For instance, I intentionally sprayed a tomato plant at work with Ortho Home defense Max to see if I could find any of the trace chemicals in the resulting fruit. Even with spraying it directly ON the fruit, and after 3 days of watering there was only a very very minute amount of the chemical left on the plant and virtually none left on the fruit. I'm talking about MAYbe .01 ppm on the fruit tested. This wasn't even enough of the product to kill a single ant!

So, to answer your question, I would just water regularly for 3 or 4 days and you should be fine.

It depends on how you feel about pesticides. While a minute dose won't make you drop dead tomorrow, it's the accumulation of toxic small amounts over time that can trigger other things in our complex human bodies.

The best thing you can do is get educated on pesticides and take the time to learn that there is not a "cure all" for every pest at every stage of it's life cycle. Some won't work if it's going to rain. Some don't work well if it's too hot, etc. Systemic products should be used only as a last resort.

Pest management is complex, if you wish to use chemical products, do so responsibly which goes further than reading the label. If you want to learn, a good place to start is here:

Integrated Pest Management
This lecture is presented in two parts. Each part is 90-minutes in length. Recorded in Sacramento County in California's Sacramento Valley, this lecture is by Mary Louise Flint, Ph.D., Director, IPM Education and Publications, UC Statewide IPM Project and Extension Entomologist & Cooperative Extension Specialist.

Education:
B.S. Plant Science, University of California, Davis
Ph.D. Entomology, University of California, Berkeley

Appointment:
100% Cooperative Extension

Research Interests:
Integrated pest management of landscape, agricultural and garden pests; biological control of arthropod pests; alternatives to pesticides; adoption of alternative practices by practitioners; innovative delivery of pest management information.

Topics discussed in the Integrated Pest Management Lecture:

* IPM references and resources
* Preventing pest problems
* Natural common enemies
* Making less toxic pesticide choices
* Controlling aphids, scales, caterpillars, coddling moths, tree borers, snails and slugs, and lawn insects.

You can watch the programs now online:

Just make sure you have Real Player installed or download it free.

Integrated Pest Management Part1 90 minutes

Integrated Pest Management Part 2 90 minutes

You'll want to bookmark the following link to Professor Flint's Lab Research on:
Controlling Pests in Gardens and Landscapes: Vegetables and Melons

I promise you'll learn one or two things to put in your gardening bag of pest management arsenals.

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I'd suggest you pitch the mismarked bottle ;) even tho the mixture had very likely already deteriorated. And you rinsed it off in plenty of time so I wouldn't worry about it either. And I wouldn't rip out the plants. They are great filters and should do fine. Pinch off those tomato blooms and let the plant concentrate on new growth for a bit and make a note in your journal about the good lesson learned.

Violet makes an excellent point in her post - take the time to learn as much as possible about the proper use of insecticides and above all - enjoy the garden. :-)

Dave