Aug 23, 2010
Canada gets Confirm

Gowan Canada has been granted the Canadian crop protection marketing rights for Confirm 240F insecticide and plans to start distributing the product immediately. Nippon Soda Co. Ltd. acquired the brand and its active ingredient – tebufenozide – from Dow AgroSciences on March 31.

Confirm controls a broad spectrum of external lepidopteran pests across a wide range of crops, including apples, cranberries, pears and greenhouse lettuce, peppers, tomatoes and ornamentals. Key pests controlled by Confirm include cabbage loopers, codling moth, European corn borer, fireworm, green pug moth, obliquebanded leafroller, sparganothis fruitworm, spotted tentiform leafminer and winter moth.

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