Five new pesticide common names approved by ISO

The ISO Technical Committee on Common Names for Pesticides has provisionally approved five new active ingredient common names in March 2012. Afidopyropen, from Meiji Seika Pharma, is a novel insecticide being developed under the code name, ME5343, according to the Compendium of Pesticide Common Names (CPCN).
Clacyfos is a phosphonate ester of the phenoxyacetic herbicide 2,4-D from Central China Normal University. The name “lvxiancaolin” (氯酰草膦) is approved in China; the spelling “lüxiancaolin” is also used. The approvals also include two fungicides. Isofetamid is a thiophenecarboxamide fungicide from Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha being developed under the code name, IKF-5411. Mitsui Chemicals Agro’s carbamate fungicide tolprocarb was developed under code MTF-0301. Pyflubumide is a pyrazole acaricide from Nihon Nohyaku being developed under code NNI-0711.