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Current Minor Use Registrations, Priorities
and Projects for Cranberry

Author: Jim Chaput - Provincial Minor Use Coordinator/OMAFRA
Creation Date: 01 March 2002
Last Reviewed: 28 September 2009

Table of Contents

  1. Registrations Achieved
  2. Priorities for Ontario
  3. Historical & Active URMULE Projects
  4. Canadian National Minor Use Priorities
  5. Related Links

Registrations Achieved

Crop(s) Active ingredient Product Target Pest(s) Sponsor Date
Cranberry tebufenozide Confirm fireworm V. Brookes, BC 2001 
Cranberry mesotrione Callisto Vetch & Creeping buttercup BC and NS; AAFC-PMC EMERGENCY USE ONLY; to Dec. 2006 in BC and NS. Full minor use registration granted March 2008
Cranberry spinosad Success, Entrust Cranberry fruitworm CETAQ June, 2007
Cranberry diazinon Diazinon Dearness scale, tipworm BCMAL August, 2007 (scale), June 2008 (tipworm)

 

Priorities for Ontario

Entomology: Cranberry
Target Pest(s) Priority Ranking Potential Solutions (Active Ingredient) Potential Solutions (Product[s]) Registrant Eligibility* URMULE or IR-4 Status Justifications**
Cranberry fruitworm 1           7
Tip worm 2 chlorantraniliprole Altacor Dupont URMULE   1
bifenthrin Brigade FMC Cat. A   1
clothianidin Clothianidin Valent Cat. A   1
azadirachtin Neemazal Pronatex Cat. A   1
Fireworm 3 methoxyfenozide Intrepid Dow Agro URMULE 07355 7
Fireworm, spanworm chlorantraniliprole Altacor Dupont URMULE   7
Sparganothis fruitworm 4 spinosad Success Dow Agro URMULE   7


Plant Pathology: Cranberry
Target Pest(s) Priority Ranking Potential Solutions (Active Ingredient) Potential Solutions (Product[s]) Registrant Eligibility* URMULE or IR-4 Status Justifications**
Phomopsis rot 1           1
Phytophthora rot 2 K salts of phosphorous acid Confine, Rampart ACC, UAP Cat. A   1
Storage rot 3           1




Weed Priorities: Cranberry
Target Pest(s) Priority Ranking Potential Solutions (Active Ingredient) Potential Solutions (Products[s]) Registrant Eligibility* URMULE or IR-4 Status Justifications **
Creeping sedge 1           1
Leatherleaf 2           1
Bog Rosemary 3           1
Raspberry 4           1
Meadowsweet, steeplebush 5           1

Ontario’s minor use priorities are established annually by various service committees and minor use commodity liaison committees.

* Eligibility:

  1. URMULE = User Requested Minor Use Label Expansion; product already available in Canada on other commodities
  2. URMUR = User Requested Minor Use Registration; product not registered in Canada yet, but available for same use in USA or EU.
  3. Other = Is not eligible for either of the above
  4. Cat. A = Registrant submission

** Justifications:

  1. No pest control product registered to control this pest (insect, disease, weed)
  2. New introduced or invasive pest problem
  3. Old technology (organophosphate, carbamate, EBDC, etc.) replacement
  4. Resistance management /IPM strategy tool
  5. Reduced risk, biopesticide, pheromone or GRAS (generally regarded as safe) product
  6. Export crop with need for harmonized pest control options and crop tolerances
  7. New crop

Historical & Active URMULE Projects

Group 13 H: Cranberry

Target Pest(s): Fruit rot
Active Ingredient: azoxystrobin
Product(s): Quadris
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: V. Brookes followed by AAFC05-040
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2001-0102, followed by 2004-1781
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: Residue, processing, decline studies required in 5B & 12 (letter May 2001). To become 2005 AAFC project; Submitted July 16, 2004; DACO issued Nov. 26, 2004; efficacy, residue and environmental data required. Reporting phase 3/08.

Target Pest(s): Grasses
Active Ingredient: clethodim
Product(s): Select
Company: Arysta
Sponsor: V. Brookes
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2002-0193
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2002-3579
Status: Submitted Jan. 2002; data provided Jan. 03; PMRA response May 20, 2003; additional crop tolerance data required

Target Pest(s): Spanworm, fireworm
Active Ingredient: spinosad
Product(s): Success/Entrust
Company: Dow Agro
Sponsor: V. Brookes followed by BCMAL and CETAQ
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2003-2154 replaces 2002-1054, replaced by 2007-7851, 2007-8043 and 2008-0772, 2008-0947.
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2008-5895, 2008-5896
Status: Submitted May, 2002; denied Dec. 2002 due to lack of efficacy data; resubmitted Oct 2003; DACO issued Jan. 15, 2004; efficacy data required. Resubmitted Oct. 2007 for fireworm by BCMAL ( low rate range); subsequent submission from CETAQ, Dec. 2007 for higher rate range. DACO issued May 13, 2008, for 2007-7851 and 2007-8043, efficacy accepted for low rate only. D.3.2 request for 2007-7851 submitted Nov. 17, 2008 and 2007-8043 withdrawn. D.3.2 assigned Dec. 18, 2008.

Target Pest(s): Weeds
Active Ingredient: mesotrione
Product(s): Callisto
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: AAFC06-010
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2005-0878
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2007-2171
Status: 2006 Project, submitted May 13, 2005. DACO issued Aug. 25, 2005; 1 residue trial in zone 12 required. New DACO issued March 13, 2006; IR-4 data satisfies requirements. D.3.2 assigned March 15, 2007. D.3.2 approval granted Jan. 15, 2008. C.6.3 2008-0233 label granted March 18, 2008.

Target Pest(s): Cranberry fruitworm
Active Ingredient: spinosad
Product(s): Success, Entrust
Company: Dow Agro
Sponsor: CETAQ, Quebec
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2006-3886, 2006-4586
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2006-6721, 2006-6722
Status: Submitted end of May 2006; D.3.2 assigned Oct. 2006. Registered June, 2007.

Target Pest(s): Cranberry fruitworm
Active Ingredient: chlorantraniliopole
Product(s): Altacor
Company: Dupont
Sponsor: AAFC07-050
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2009-3471
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: Joint with IR-4 (09866); data submitted Sept. 10, 2009.

Target Pest(s): Dearness scale
Active Ingredient: diazinon
Product(s): Diazinon
Company: UAP
Sponsor: BCMAL
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2007-4238
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2007-4277
Status: submitted May 2007; registered August 2007.

Target Pest(s): Cranberry tipworm
Active Ingredient: diazinon
Product(s): Diazinon
Company: UAP
Sponsor: BCMAL
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2008-1533
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2008-1715
Status: submitted April 2008; D.3.2 assigned May 26, 2008. C.6.3 2008-1760 label approved June 23, 2008.

Target Pest(s): Cranberry tipworm
Active Ingredient: spirotetramat
Product(s): Movento
Company:Bayer
Sponsor: AAFC09-050
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1):
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: Joint with IR-4 (10198)

Target Pest(s): Cranberry & Sparganothis fruitworms
Active Ingredient: flubendiamide replaced by cyantraniliprole
Product(s): Belt replaced by Cyazypyr
Company: Bayer replaced by DuPont
Sponsor: AAFC09-051
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1):
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: Joint with IR-4 (10199).

Target Pest(s): Cranberry tipworm, fireworm & Sparganothis fruitworm
Active Ingredient: spinetoram
Product(s): Delegate
Company: Dow Agro
Sponsor: BCMAL
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2009-0787
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: submitted March 2009. DACO issued June 5, 2009; environmental data required.

Canadian National Minor Use Priorities

Visit the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada website (Pesticide Risk Reduction and Minor Use Programs) or contact your provincial minor use coordinator.

Related Links

 

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