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15 May 2012

The European Parliament has agreed to postpone its “discharge” (approval) of the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) 2010 accounts, due to concerns over conflict of interests and high costs. The ...

15 May 2012

A US judge has ordered all the participants in a broad dispute over the effects of pesticides on endangered species to be present at a status conference on settlement negotiations in three months’ ...

10 May 2012

ChemChina subsidiary Makhteshim-Agan Industries (MAI) has denied making changes to its fipronil insecticide manufacturing process in alleged violation of a US court order. BASF has asked the US ...

25 April 2012

The Competition Commission of India has found three companies guilty of indulging in price collusion while participating in tenders floated by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) for the procurement ...

 
16 May 2012

French chemical company Arkema (Colombes) has received approval for its soil fumigant, dimethyl disulfide, in Turkey and Lebanon. It will be sold as Paladin in Lebanon and as Accolade in Turkey. It ...

16 May 2012

Rallis India recorded a sales decline of 13.7% to Rs 2,057.3 million ($38.2 million at the current rate) in its fourth quarter ended March 31st 2011. Quarterly net profit halved (-51.8%) to Rs 92.6 ...

15 May 2012

ChemChina subsidiary Makhteshim-Agan Industries (MAI) posted a 6.3% rise in agrochemical sales to $780 million in the first quarter of 2011. Growth came from a rise in volume sales and higher prices ...

15 May 2012

Syngenta and the Belgian biotechnology company, Devgen (Ghent), have agreed a global licensing and development deal for the use of RNA interference (RNAi) technology to develop new biological control ...

 
15 May 2012

China is still to consider further approvals of paraquat active ingredient production and for formulation and processing plants, rather than ending all such authorisations as was previously reported ...

11 May 2012

A federal judge in Brazil has rejected a public prosecutor request for a ban on the sales and use of the arsenical herbicide, MSMA, on cotton, national media report. The public prosecutor’s office, ...

11 May 2012

The US EPA has granted Sumitomo Chemical’s US subsidiary, Valent USA Corporation (Walnut Creek, California), an experimental use permit (EUP) to test the acaricide, etoxazole, on maize. The EUP ...

03 May 2012

Italian agrochemical association Agrofarma has rebutted recent research showing a link between the application of neonicotinoid insecticides and the collapse of bee colonies. Two recently published ...

 
17 May 2012

The European Commission must make sure that the interpretation of the EU biotechnology patents Directive (98/44 – Agrow No 500, p 9) does not limit innovation by smaller European plant breeders, says ...

17 May 2012

The European Commission is considering setting thresholds for the low-level presence of non-EU-approved genetically modified crops in food imports. It will “probably” use the same mechanism as ...

17 May 2012

Most US consumers support existing food labelling rules and few cite biotechnology as an information need on food labels. They are some of the findings of the latest survey by the International Food ...

16 May 2012

The Australian Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) has approved an application from DuPont seed subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred International to conduct field tests on genetically modified ...

 
Wilbur-Ellis The US agrochemical distributor, Wilbur-Ellis (San Francisco, California), has appointed James ...
FMC FMC has appointed Dr Lamar Buckelew as product development manager for insecticide projects in its ...
Isagro USA Alessandro Mariani has been appointed president of Italian agrochemical company Isagro’s US ...
 
30 April 2012
Sanjiv Rana
The term “emerging sector” has been synonymous with biopesticides for quite a few years. The sector has been variously hailed as the future ...
12 April 2012
Andy Beer
With a month to go to the US National Academy of Sciences’ (NAS) summit on strategies to manage herbicide-resistant weeds, the topic got an ...
27 January 2012
Sanjiv Rana
The setting of criteria for EU member states to ban the cultivation of EU-approved genetically modified crops occupied centre stage during ...
 
 
 
 
22 June 2011
Sanjiv Rana
The beginning of 2010 signified a time of change at the helm at Arysta LifeScience. Wayne Hewett took over as chief executive from Dr Chris Richards, who had held the role since the inception of the company in 2003. Having spent most of his professional career at the global behemoth, GE, Mr Hewett’s move into a niche-focused agrochemical company could be easily predicted to spell a turbulent transition. But the new CEO seems to have found the secret of continuity within change. Arysta ...
 

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