Dow's spinetoram progresses in EU
Date:09-03-2008
The EU approval application for Dow AgroSciences' new insecticide, spinetoram, has been recognised as complete by the EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCFCAH). The regulatory committee's clearance is an early stage in the EU registration process and the active ingredient will undergo detailed evaluation before an approval decision is taken. Spinetoram is for use on a wide range of crops. Its first global approval was in New Zealand in 2007 and it has since been registered in the US, Canada, Mexico, South Korea, Malaysia and Pakistan.
Elsewhere at its latest meeting, the SCFCAH voted in favour of extending EU provisional approvals for two other new ais that are still going through the EU registration system: Bayer CropScience's fungicide, fluopicolide; and Syngenta's herbicide, pinoxaden. The decision goes forward for confirmation by the European Commission, which normally allows extensions for up to two years. Fluopicolide and pinoxaden gained their first EU provisional approvals in the UK in 2005, and have since been registered in several EU countries.
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