Malathion
The EU Commission has ruled that malathion is not eligible for listing on Annex 1 of Directive 91/414/EEC with product registrations expiring December 2008. Cheminova re-submitted a dossier for review in June 2008 and is confident that new data provided in the dossier fully support the uses on which the application is based. The evaluation of the dossier is ongoing and expected to be completed in late 2009.
Acrinathrin and futriafol
Cheminova markets a range of products based on the active ingredients acrinathrin and flutriafol. These two molecules are currently undergoing regulatory evaluation within the European review programme laid down by Directive 91/414/EEC.
The European review programme was recently revised when it became clear that evaluation of all products on the market could not be completed within available timescales. To ensure that a comprehensive evaluation could be completed, a new process was established which called for voluntary withdrawal and re-submission of data on active ingredients. This is a temporary withdrawal from the ongoing review process. As such, the withdrawal option is only available for active substances considered to be safe (with no indication of harmful effects) and for which data are available to complete a re-submission and review before the end of 2010. Products will not be withdrawn from the market during this evaluation period and Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs), established for crops on which flutriafol is used, will be unaffected.
Cheminova will re-submit its dossiers for both acrinathrin and flutriafol in the next few months and is confident that the data will support a positive outcome to the review.
The information in Agrow issue No. 559 about these two molecules being phased out of the EU market is therefore not correct. It is correct that Cheminova in both cases has agreed a temporary voluntarily withdrawal from the evaluation process, but this is not the same as a phase-out. Cheminova firmly believe that both molecules will remain in the EU market in the longer term.
January 16, 2009
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