Dow Expects Enlist Duo to be Available for the 2016 U.S. Crop Season
November 25 2015 - 5:38PM
Business Wire
Relative to EPA’s recently filed motion to vacate the
registration of Enlist Duo herbicide, The Dow Chemical Company
(NYSE: DOW) is confident in the extensive data supporting this new
technology and is working quickly with EPA to provide assurances
that our product’s conditions of registered use will continue to
protect the environment, including threatened and endangered plant
species.
“We believe the questions that have been raised about any
potential synergy between 2,4-D choline and glyphosate can be
promptly resolved in the next few months, in time for the 2016 crop
use season,” said Tim Hassinger, Dow AgroSciences President and
CEO.
“It’s possible that we could see some changes to use conditions
on the existing Enlist Duo label,” Hassinger added. “However, based
on the ongoing dialogue with EPA, we do not expect these issues to
result in the long-term cancellation of the Enlist Duo product
registration. We continue to prepare for commercial sales of Enlist
Duo for the 2016 growing season with enthusiastic grower
adoption.”
Evaluations of potential synergy from herbicidal mixtures are
common within the crop protection industry and are not unique to
Dow AgroSciences or Enlist Duo. EPA has not used observations of
potential synergy in mixtures as a basis for regulatory action.
Technology providers, like Dow AgroSciences, have commonly filed
patent applications on mixtures, without there being any connection
to EPA’s regulatory processes.
“EPA now has all of the data developed by Dow AgroSciences on
observed potential synergies between 2,4-D choline and glyphosate
in Enlist Duo,” Hassinger added. “From these data, EPA will readily
see – after evaluating all of the efficacy data on the final
formulation – why these data support the registration of Enlist
Duo.”
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