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News Releases New range of insecticides to be launched at International Congress 30 July 2007 The agrochemical majors are set to launch an exciting new range of insecticide products at this year’s International Plant Protection Congress, taking place in Glasgow, October 15-18. Introduced by Bayer CropScience, BASF and DuPont, they include broad-spectrum and selective pest control chemicals, with new modes of action, showing effectiveness against resistant strains and favourable toxicological and environmental profiles. The demand to use the Congress for new product launches at the Congress has been such that two ‘New Compounds, Concepts and Uses’ sessions have been arranged to accommodate them, says organisers, BCPE (British Crop Production Enterprises). "Although the frequency of new product introductions may have slowed in recent years, there are emerging signs that innovation is still alive and well in the pest and disease control sector,” says Dr Colin Ruscoe, chairman of BCPE. “Novel chemical and physical modes of action are still being discovered and commercialised, with every indication that they will meet the increasingly stringent demands for efficacy and safety." In addition, there are plans at this year’s congress for the launch of a new broad-spectrum nematicide, an Otsuka acaricide from a new chemical family, as well as a new and improved BASF rice fungicide from the strobilurin stable. Attendees will also have the opportunity to hear a wide range of papers given on novel concepts and uses, says Dr Ruscoe, including a GM approach to the production of sterile male insects for use in control programmes. "There will also be an explanation as to why petroleum oils kill insects, a novel whitefly repellent from the Japanese Riken Institute, new micro-encapsulated formulations of insecticides, a synergist that overcomes insect resistance and papers on fungicidal isolates of Bacillus subtilis," he says. The XVI International Plant Protection Congress, in association with IAPPS (International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences) and the BCPE (British Crop Production Enterprises) International Congress & Exhibition, takes place from October 15-18, 2007 at the SECC, Glasgow. |
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