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Article: Arysta LifeScience Granted Japan Registration for YOKAFUME[R].
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- October 27, 2009
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Effective Methyl Bromide Alternative Expands into World Agriculture Marketplace
TOKYO -- Arysta LifeScience today announced Japan has granted commercial registration for YOKAFUME([R]), a broad-spectrum soil fumigant based on iodoemethane and marketed as MIDAS([R]) in the United States. YOKAFUME([R])effectively controls a broad range of soil-borne diseases, nematodes, weed seeds and insects that threaten high-value crops and is approved for soil use for tomatoes, melons and commodity fumigation of chestnuts. An expansion of the label to include ginger and myoga is expected in 2010.
MIDAS([R]), approved by the U.S. EPA in 2007, does not deplete the ozone ...