AgroPages-Canada to approve ISK’s Secure Fungicide-Agricultural news

Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) is proposing full registration for the sale and use of Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha subsidiary ISK Biosciences’ Technical Fluazinam Fungicide and Secure Fungicide, containing fluazinam, to control fungal diseases on turf (golf courses and sod farms).

Fluazinam is a conventional fungicide and the sole active ingredient in Secure Fungicide. This product is to be used as a foliar product for the control of dollar spot, anthracnose, Microdochium patch and brown patch in turf. Fluazinam works by interfering with respiration in susceptible pathogenic fungi. Fluazinam is already registered in Canada for use on agricultural crops.

Fluazinam was previously registered in the end-use product Allegro 500F Agricultural Fungicide, granted full registration in 2008, to control various diseases on potatoes, soybeans, cruciferous vegetables, bushberries, edible-podded legume vegetables (except pea), dry shelled beans, ginseng, carrots, apples, cantaloupe, field peppers and bulb onions.

Secure Fungicide will provide users with a new mode of action to control economically important diseases on golf courses and sod farms.

The addition of fluazinam to the rotation in a treatment program on turf will potentially delay fungicide resistance against products with different modes of action. The ability to tank mix Secure Fungicide with Banner Maxx (propiconazole) or Heritage Maxx (azoxystrobin) will provide users with a resistance management tool and a broad spectrum disease management strategy.

Before making a final registration decision on fluazinam and Secure Fungicide, the PMRA will consider any comments received from the public before December 23th, 2017.