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Garden Detective Control Update |
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| Following the EC Review Programme, only a limited number of chemicals are legal for amateur home gardeners to use. | |
| For more information see the Chemicals Regulation Directorate website. | |
| For a list of recently withdrawn pesticides see the CRD’s News on Withdrawn Products | |
| To check if pesticides you currently hold are still legal, use the link to Garden Database on that site. | |
| For detailed information on non-chemical prevention and pest management see your Garden Detective CD. | |
| Active ingredients now permitted for amateur/garden use on or around edible plants are: | |
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• Fungicides: copper copper oxychloride copper sulphate difenoconazole mancozeb myclobutanil sulphur |
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• Insecticides: bifenthrin cypermethrin deltamethrin fatty acids fatty acids and pyrethrins imidacloprid lambda-cyhalothrin pyrethrins thiacloprid thiamethoxam |
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• Molluscicides: ferric phosphate metaldehyde |
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• Herbicides: 1-naphthylacetic acid 4-indol-3-ylbutyric acid acetic acid diflufenican and glyphosate diflufenican, glyphosate and oxadiazon diquat diquat and glyphosate fatty acids fatty acids and glufosinate-ammonium glufosinate-ammonium glyphosate glyphosate and pyraflufen-ethyl maleic hydrazide and pelargonic acid sodium chlorate triclopyr |
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| The following active ingredients have been withdrawn from amateur/garden use since 2002: | |
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• Fungicides: carbendazim tar oils and tar acids thiophanate methyl triforine and bupirimate |
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• Insecticides: chlorpyriphos dimethoate lindane malathion permethrin pirimicarb pirimiphos-methyl resmethrin rotenone tar oils and tar acids |
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• Herbicides: ammonium sulphamate atrazine dichlobenil dichloroprop diuron paraquat simazine sodium chlorate tar oils and tar acids TBA |
