Active ingredient: Active chemical in its pure or technical form.
Administration: Administration can take place orally, subcutaneously, intramuscularly, intravenously or intraperitoneally.
Auditing: Review of accounts.
Bio-ethanol: Alcohol intended for fuel and produced from plants.
BOD: Biochemical Oxygen Demand – English term for BI5 (five days’ biochemical oxygen consumed).
Carbofuran: Insecticide, primarily used in rice and potatoes in Colombia.
Chemical synthesis: Process, where chemical compounds react with each other so that new compounds are formed.
Class I product: A product which, according to WHO’s recommended guidelines, has been classified as highly hazardous or extremely hazardous. Class II products are classified as moderately or slightly hazardous.
COD: Chemical Oxygen Demand - measure for the content of organic compounds in water.
Code of Conduct: FAO’s international guidelines concerning the distribution and use of pesticides.
Codex Alimentarius: An organisation under FAO/WHO which prepares global standards and guidelines for foodstuffs and the production of foodstuffs in order to secure the global supply of healthy and safe food and facilitate trade.
Contract work: Production made on behalf of other companies.
CSR: Corporate Social Responsibility. Social, environmental and ethical demands made between companies, customers, interested parties and collaboration partners.
DDVP: Insecticide used in rice in India.
Emulsifiable concentrate: Mixture of a liquid active ingredient, solvents and surfactants that enable the product to be diluted with water to a low concentrate spray fluid.
FAO: The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation.
Fenamiphos: Pesticide against soil-living pests (round worms).
Formulation: Active ingredient to which has been added an accessory agent that makes the product a ready-to-use control agent.
Generic active ingredient: Identical copy of an existing active ingredient.
GNI: Gross National Income.
Innovation: New invention.
ISO 14001: International environmental certification covering the surrounding environment.
KPI: Key Performance Indicator.
Methamidophos: Insecticide used e.g. in cotton and soybeans.
Methomyl: Insecticide, in Mexico mostly used in cotton and vegetables.
Methyl parathion: Insecticide mostly used in cotton.
Microcapsules (microcapsule formulation): Fluid product where the active ingredient is encapsulated in microscopic capsules which are soluble in water.
Monocrotophos: Insecticide mainly used in cotton and rice.
MRL: Maximum Residue Level (Maximum residue level of pesticides in foodstuffs).
NOx: Total concentration of all nitrogen oxides calculated as NO2.
OD formulation: Oil-based suspension of solid active ingredient particles.
OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
OHSAS 18001: International environmental certification covering the working environment.
Pesticides (plant protection products): Collective name for insecticides, herbicides and fungicides.
Phorate: Insecticide used against soil-living pests.
PIC: Prior Informed Consent (Prior informed consent that has to be established before a product from the PIC list is exported).
Product stewardship: Overall description of responsible management of a company’s products.
REACH: Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (Common EU regulation on documentation requirements concerning chemicals).
Registration data: Test results and documentation that must be submitted to the authorities in order to obtain sales permissions.
Responsible Care: Objectives concerning responsible conduct, adhered to by Cheminova.
Suspension concentrate: An active ingredient in solid form suspended in water with surfactants which enables the product to be diluted with water to a low concentrate spray liquid.
Third-party products: Sales products not produced by Cheminova but bought from other suppliers.
Triazophos: Insecticide used in particular in cotton in India.
Unintended incidents: Operational disruptions with a brief effect on the external environment.
WHO: World Health Organisation.
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