Current Minor Use Registrations, Priorities
and Projects for Rhubarb

Table of Contents

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

Priorities for Ontario

Ontario’s minor use priorities are established annually by various services 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
5. Cat. B = Registrant submissions for new or amended product chemistry, new MRLs for previously assessed actives, new or amended label statements, reinstatement of registered products, extension of limited term registrations and emergency use registrations.

** 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 4: Leafy Vegetables

Rhubarb

Target Pest(s): Potato stem borer
Active Ingredient: spinosad
Product(s): Success
Company: Dow Agro
Sponsor: AAFC06-030
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2005-1903
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2005-3863
Status: 2006 Project; registered Feb. 2006

Target Pest(s): Weeds
Active Ingredient: mesotrione
Product(s): Callisto
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: AAFC08-039
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2008-0592
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: 2008 Project; DACO issued May 7, 2008; metabolism, crop tolerance and residue data required.

Crop Group 4

Target Pest(s): Sclerotinia, downy mildew
Active Ingredient: boscalid + pyraclostrobin
Product(s): Pristine
Company: BASF
Sponsor: AAFC04-014 (celery), 04-015 (head lettuce), 04-016 (leaf lettuce), 04-017 (spinach)
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2003-2160
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2007-8463
Status: Submitted Oct. 2003; 2004 Project. D.3.2 assigned Nov. 22, 2007. D.3.2 approval granted April 2, 2009 for celery, spinach, rhubarb, chard, fennel, celtuce only. C.6.3 2009-2150 label approved for Septoria, Cercospora on celery, Sclerotinia on celery, spinach, rhubarb, chard, fennel, celtuce, downy mildew on spinach Oct. 13, 2009.

Target Pest(s): Pea leafminer
Active Ingredient: cyromazine
Product(s): Citation
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: J. Chaput
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2005-1715
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2005-3518
Status: Submitted mid-July 2005. D.3.2 assigned Dec. 2005. Registered August 2006.

Target Pest(s): Leaf blights on subgroup 4B, leafy petiole vegetables
Active Ingredient: trifloxystrobin
Product(s): Flint
Company: Bayer
Sponsor: AAFC-PMC
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2008-1642
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: submitted May 2008; WITHDRAWN.

Target Pest(s): Aphids
Active Ingredient: pymetrozine
Product(s): Fulfill
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: CQH
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2009-1153
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: Submitted April 2009. DACO issued July 28, 2009; WP - WG formulation bridging data required.

Target Pest(s): Aphids, TPB
Active Ingredient: thiamethoxam
Product(s): Actara
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: J. Chaput
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2009-1632
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: Submitted May 2009.

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

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Pesticide Risk Reduction and Minor Use Programs
• Ontario Minor Use Program
• Information For Sponsors
• Current Minor Use Registrations, Priorities and Projects
• Ontario Emergency Use Registrations