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Adverse Effects
ACTIVITY:
Fungicide
(strobin)
CAS Name:
methyl (?E)-?-(methoxymethylene)-2-[[[6-(trifluoromethyl)-2-
pyridinyl]oxy]methyl]benzeneacetate
Structure:
| Adverse
Effects:
Body
Weight Decrease
Bone
Endocrine: Testicular |
Regulatory
Information
(only comprehensive for the US) |
| US
EPA Registered: |
No |
Registered
use in
(includes only a limited list of countries)
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Germany,
UK
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UK
Temporary MRL's
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Applicable
from: January 2002
Barley
and oats: 0.2 p pm
Wheat: 0.05 ppm |
| Other
Information |
| Molecular
Formula: |
C18H16
F3 NO4 |
| Entry
Year: |
1998 |
| Manufacturers: |
Syngenta
(originally Zeneca) |
| Other
Names: |
Acanto
ZA 1963 |
| Of
special interest: |
| PAN
Data |
| July
2003 - Review
report for the active substance picoxystrobin. Picoxystrobin
SANCO/10196/2003-Final. 3 June 2003.
Finalised in the [European Commission] Standing Committee on
the Food Chain and Animal Health at its meeting on 4 July 2003
in view of the inclusion of picoxystrobin in Annex I of Directive
91/414/EEC/. |
On
31 May 2001 Syngenta announced the first registration worldwide
of its new broad-spectrrum strobilurin fungicide, picoxystrobin.
It has been granted registration in Germany for use on wheat,
barley, oats and rye, and will be markete4d as Acanto
®. This is the first of a number of cereal fungicide registrations
expected, largely in other European countries.
Regulatory News - http://www.researchinformation.co.uk/pest/2001/B104732A.PDF |
| April
2002 - Beer
in the UK: 23 organofluorine pesticides approved for use on
malting barley. Published by the British
Beer and Pubs Association and Brewing Research International.
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| January
17, 2002 - Concern
of effect on earthworms. Minutes
of UK Advisory Committee on Pesticides. |
| January
2001 - Syngenta is seeking permission to open a £50m agrochemicals
plant at Grangemouth in May to produce a new fungicide called
picoxystrobin.
http://www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk/syngenta.htm
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| August
2001 -
IR-4 New Products/Transitional
Solution List - This
list contains brief descriptions of numerous new pest control
materials that have been introduced over the last several years.
Additionally, it contains information on some "older"
crop protection chemicals that are believed to have room for
new uses. This List includes:
Picoxystrobin |
| October
2001.
Glossary of Pesticide Chemicals.
A listing
of pesticides subject to analysis of residues in foods and feeds
by the US Food and Drug Administration. |
| July
1999 - Acknowledgement
of dossier submitted by Zeneca Agrochemicals in the Official
Journal of the European Communities. |
| Toxicologically
significant compounds:
Parent compound; 2-[6-(trifluoromethyl) pyridin-2-yloxymethyl]-benzoic
acid (metabolite 8, soil); o-phthalic
acid (metabolite 15, grain)
Ref: July
2003 - Review report for the active substance picoxystrobin.
Picoxystrobin SANCO/10196/2003-Final. 3 June 2003. Finalised
in the [European Commission] Standing Committee on the Food
Chain and Animal Health at its meeting on 4 July 2003 in view
of the inclusion of picoxystrobin in Annex I of Directive
91/414/EEC/.
http://www.fluorideaction.org/pesticides/picoxystrobin.eu.june.2003.pdf
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