Current Minor Use Registrations, Priorities and
Projects for Sea Buckthorn

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 the various OASCC research and services committees, commodity crop protection task forces and the field crops technical working group

* 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 pest problem
3. Old technology replacement (organophosphate, carbamate, EBDC, etc.)
4. Resistance management tool
5. Reduced risk, biopesticide or GRAS (generally regarded as safe) product
6. Supports a new IPM approach (pheromone mating disruption, etc.)
7. Export crop with need for harmonized pest control options and crop tolerances
8. More effective therefore leading to pesticide reduction
9. New crop

Historical & Active URMULE Projects

Crop group 13: Berries

Sea Buckthorn

Target Pest(s): Brown rot
Active Ingredient: sulphur
Product(s): Microscopic Sulphur
Company: UAP
Sponsor: IRDA
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2007-4253
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2007-8113
Status: Submitted April 2007. DACO issued Oct. 31, 2007; efficacy and phytotoxicity data required. Data received, D.3.2 assigned Nov. 8, 2007. C.6.3 2008-1437 label approved May 5, 2008.

Target Pest(s): Gypsy moth
Active Ingredient: Bacillus thuringiensis
Product(s): Dipel 2X DF, Bioprotec CAF
Company: Valent, AEF Global
Sponsor: J. Chaput
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2007-5380, 2007-5636
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2007-8122, 2007-8462
Status: Dipel submitted July 2007, Bioprotec submitted Aug. 2007. D.3.2 assigned for Dipel Nov. 8, 2007. D.3.2 approval granted for Dipel Nov. 21, 2007. D.3.2 assigned for Bioprotec Nov. 22, 2007. D.3.2 approval granted for Bioprotec Nov. 27, 2007. C.6.3 2008-0616 label approved July 7, 2008. C.6.3 2008-1472 Dipel label approved Nov. 26, 2008.

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