ISO approved one rodenticide common name

Date:11-26-2012

The ISO Technical Committee on Common Names for Pesticides has provisionally approved one new active ingredient common name "cholecalciferol", according to the Compendium of Pesticide Common Names (CPCN). Cholecalciferol is a rodenticide, its former common name “colecalciferol” is approved by the World Health Organization and was provisionally approved by the ISO Technical Committee in March 2012, but the sponsor requested that the spelling be changed to “cholecalciferol”, and the revised spelling was provisionally approved in October 2012.