TOKYO — Arysta LifeScience today announced Mexico and Morocco have granted registrations for iodomethane (methyl iodide), a broad spectrum soil fumigant that controls the soil-borne diseases, nematodes, weed seeds and insects that threaten high-value crops, according to Arysta.
碘甲烷是作为溴甲烷的替代品而开发的，并将作为 MIDAS 在两国进行商业销售。碘甲烷已在美国、日本、土耳其和新西兰注册使用，澳大利亚、危地马拉、哥斯达黎加、智利、埃及、以色列、南非和其他国家的注册正在等待中。
“MIDAS approval in Mexico, Morocco and other countries supports the objectives of the Montreal Protocol treaty to reduce the use of ozone depleting substances around the globe,” Hildo Brilleman, Global Marketing Manager Fumigants for Arysta LifeScience, said in a press release. “The phase out of methyl bromide by 2015, as mandated by the Montreal Protocol, can be significantly expedited with MIDAS use.”
MIDAS 是下一代土壤熏蒸剂。与甲基溴相比，其独特的化学成分使种植者能够保护作物，同时每英亩使用的产品重量更少，特别是因为它将主要用于几乎不透水的薄膜 (VIF)。 MIDAS 还附带行业领先的安全和管理计划。
Arysta LifeScience has worked closely with local and international stakeholders in implementing MIDAS trials in Mexico and Morocco. Mexico’s Federal Health Protection Commission and Health Commission Authority granted technical registration for MIDAS in August following an extensive review. Technical registration will pave the way for formulation registrations for MIDAS 33:67 and MIDAS 98:2 in 2011. MIDAS will be applied via drip and shank application in fields where tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, berries and melons will be grown. A full commercial launch is planned for 2012.
“Arysta LifeScience has worked with Mexico’s ministries for health, environment and agriculture on extensive field trials that tested MIDAS with other methyl bromide alternatives.” said Brilleman. “We know that MIDAS is an effective crop protection tool, and its registration takes Mexico one step further toward their goal of methyl bromide phase out by the end of 2013.”
In September, Morocco’s Pesticide Registration Commission registered MIDAS 98:2 for tomatoes and French beans. Arysta LifeScience will launch MIDAS to the Moroccan agricultural market during the International Exhibition of Fruit and Vegetable Industry’s annual trade show in Agadir in December. Amaroc SA will distribute and apply MIDAS via drip application with Arysta LifeScience’s proprietary application equipment, Symmetry. Morocco is slated to phase-out methyl bromide by the end of 2012.
MIDAS于2007年在美国环境保护局注册，迄今为止已获准在包括佛罗里达州在内的47个州使用。