UN WHO field trials on Bayer CropScience’s insecticidal mosquito net, LifeNet, have confirmed that it exceeds the requirement of effectiveness after 20 washes. Tests in Tanzania, Benin and India showed that LifeNet was effective after 30 washes, with regeneration after washing within one day, Bayer points out. LifeNet incorporates the pyrethroid insecticide, deltamethrin, in polypropylene fibres. The UN WHO issued an interim recommendation earlier this year (Agrow No 615, p 28).
The ISO Technical Committee on Common Names for Pesticides has provisionally approved three new active ingredient names. Bayer CropScience’s insecticide, flupyradifurone, is being developed under the code name, BYI02960, according to the Compendium of Pesticide Common Names (CPCN). Bayer’s triazinylsulfonylurea herbicide, iofensulfuron, will be sold as the sodium salt, iofensulfuron-sodium (BCS-AA10579). The insecticide, flometoquin, from Japanese companies Meiji Seika and Nippon Kayaku is ...
France has approved Syngenta's oilseed rape seed treatment insecticide/fungicide, Cruiser OSR (thiamethoxam 280 g/litre + fludioxonil 8 g/litre + metalaxyl-M 32.3 g/litre), reports newswire Agrisalon.com. The decision is based on a favourable report submitted by the national agency for health security, the Anses, in October. It concluded that the seed treatment met all safety requirements. France has been providing short-term provisional approvals for Cruiser for use on maize each year since ...
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