US EPA received registration applications for new pesticide active ingredients

Date:05-24-2013

US EPA recently received several applications to register pesticide products containing active ingredients not included in any currently registered pesticide products.They are: Syngenta’s fungicides, benzovindiflupyr; benzovindiflupyr and difenoconazole; benzovindiflupyr and azoxystrobin; benzovindiflupyr and propiconazole, Bayer CropSciences’ insecticide/miticide, Streptomyces microflavus strain AQ 6121, Gowan’s herbicide, benzobicyclon, ISK Biosciences’ fungicide, isofetamid,  AgBiTech’s insecticide, helicoverpa zeaNucleopolyhedrovirus, Phyllom’s insecticide, bacillus thuringiensis subsp. galleriae strain SDS–502 at 85.0%.The details are as follow:

Category	AIS	Company	Proposed Uses
Fungicide	Benzovindiflupyr	Syngenta	Technical product for Manufacturing Use Only; Terrestrial food crops; Turf and Greenhouse/Outdoor Ornamentals
	Benzovindiflupyr+Difenoconazole		Terrestrial food crops;Turf
	Benzovindiflupyr+Azoxystrobin		Terrestrial food crops;Turf; Ornamentals
	Benzovindiflupyr +Propiconazole		Terrestrial food crops
Insecticide/ Miticide	Streptomyces microflavus strain AQ 6121.	Bayer CropSciences	Terrestrial food crops
Herbicide	Benzobicyclon	Gowan	For use only in California: Post-flooding rice paddy fields.
Fungicide	Isofetamid	ISK Biosciences	Almonds; Lettuce (head and leaf); Small Fruit Vine Climbing, Subgroup 13–07F; Low growing Berry, Subgroup 13–07G; Rapeseed, Subgroup 20A.
Insecticide	Helicoverpa ZeaNucleopolyhedrovirus.	AgBiTech	Agriculture (outdoors).
Insecticide	Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. galleriae strain SDS–502 at 85.0%.	Phyllom	For control of certain beetle pests, including those in the families Buprestidae, Scarabaeidae, and Curculionidae, onornamentals and select crops for food and animal feed uses in poultry premises.