EU oks Mitsui’s biofungicide Bacillus amyloliquefaciens D747

Date:12-15-2014

The European Commission has approved Mitsui AgriScience’s biofungicide Bacillus amyloliquefaciens subsp. plantarum strain D747, as a foliar spray to table and wine grapes for the control of Botrytis cinerea. The representative formulated product is ‘CX 9030’ a water dispersible granule formulation (WG) containing 5x10¹³ CFU/kg of D747, which was isolated from the atmosphere in Japan in 2000. The approval will be effective on April 1^st 2015, and expire on March 31^st 2025. EU notes that Member States shall pay particular attention to the protection of operators and workers, taking into account that strain D747 is to be considered as a potential sensitizer.