Sugar lobby group Canegrowers says it will formally ask the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) to review its ban of the popular herbicide diuron. During a Senate ...

The herbicide diuron would be banned on all US food crops under a proposed decision announced April 28 by the Environmental Protection Agency. The proposal would also end use of the herbicide on ...

Diuron is also used as an antimicrobial ingredient ... EPA said it would suspend the registration of the herbicide DCPA, or dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate. In that case, the agency said ...

The combined result of these studies is that diuron: • Represents a clear threat to the health of marine and freshwater ecosystems • Is the dominant herbicide entering the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and ...

A Dupont product, the active ingredient in Direx 4L is diuron, a broad-spectrum herbicide used for weed, grass, and brush control on highway shoulders. It stops photosynthesis, which in turn ...

THE Australian Pesticides & Veterinary Medicines Authority wants to suspend the use of diuron after a second review into the herbicide found use-rates present a risk to aquatic ecosystems in most ...

Fellow forum member Mark Bennett said Wandsworth residents had not been consulted about the use of residual herbicides, such as Diuron. He said: There are other ways of dealing with weeds on ...