US EPA Receives Applications for New Active Ingredients
MAY 3, 2024
The US EPA has received applications to register pesticide products containing active ingredients not included in any currently registered pesticide products:
- Bayer CropScience - Brevibacillus laterosporus Mpp75Aa1.1 protein and the genetic material (vector PVZMIR525664) necessary for its production in corn event MON 95275 for use as a plant-incorporated protectant.
- Bayer CropScience - Bacillus thuringiensis Vpb4Da2 protein and the genetic material (vector PV-ZMIR525664) necessary for its production in corn event MON 95275 for use as a plant-incorporated protectant.
- Bayer CropScience - dsRNA transcript comprising a DvSnf7.1 inverted repeat sequence derived from Diabrotica virgifera, and the genetic material (vector PV-ZMIR525664) necessary for its production in corn event MON 95275 for use as a plant-incorporated protectant.
- Oxitec Ltd - Tetracycline Trans-Activator Variant (tTAV-OX5034) protein and the genetic material (from vector pOX5034) necessary to produce the protein in vivo for use as an insecticide.
- Lepidext, Inc. - Helicoverpa zea nudivirus 2 isolate 90DR71 at 0.0000015% for use as an insecticide.
- Plant Health Care - PDHP 68949 at 1 percent for use as a nematicide/plant growth regulator.