Assail Attains New Registrations
4 March 2008 Nippon Soda’s Assail (acetamiprid) achieved US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) registration for use on several new crops. The product, which is marketed and distributed in the US by United Phosphorus, Inc. (UPI), is now approved for use on cucurbits, stone fruit, tree nuts, legume vegetables, bulb vegetables, strawberries, blueberries, and other cane and bush berries, according to a UPI release.
Assail insecticide offers broad-spectrum control on a wide variety of chewing and sucking insects including aphids, leaf hoppers, glassy-winged sharpshooters, whiteflies, cherry fruit flies, oriental fruit moths, codling moths, pecan weevils, thrips, beetles, melonworms, blueberry maggots, peach twig borers, pecan nut casebearers, and others, and also offers application flexibility and the benefit of a pre-harvest interval (PHI) of 14 days or less, depending on the crop. The product can be applied during bloom when bees are not actively foraging.
Assail is a reduced risk insecticide with an REI of 12 hours, allowing workers to quickly re-enter the orchard or field. “Assail has been trusted by fruit and vegetable growers for many years. Growers reach for Assail when they need a broad spectrum insecticide to help protect yield and quality,” said David Davies, UPI Insecticide Brand Manager, in a UPI release.
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