ISO adopts three new pesticide names

Date:07-26-2011


The ISO Technical Committee on Common Names for Pesticides has provisionally approved three new active ingredient names in June 2011. Flometoquin, from Meiji Seika Kaisha and Nippon Kayaku, is a novel insecticide being developed under the code name, ANM-138, according to the Compendium of Pesticide Common Names (CPCN). Bayer CropScience’s flupyradifurone is also a novel insecticide being developed under the code name, BYI02960. Another active ingredient iofensulfuron from Bayer CropScience is a sulfonylurea herbicides being developed under the code BCS-AA10579. Iofensulfuron will be marketed in sodium salt form, iofensulfuron-sodium, the CPCN notes.