Dow AgroSciences Named a ‘Partner in Ozone Protection’ by EPA

INDIANAPOLIS — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named Dow AgroSciences a partner in ozone protection. The agency’s recent report, “Achievements in Stratospheric Ozone Protection” notes the important and substantial achievements by people, programs and organizations working to protect the earth’s ozone layer.

Dow AgroSciences was included under the category “new technologies in pest management.” The report states: “Methyl bromide is a first-generation ozone-depleting substance. Dow AgroSciences developed alternatives to methyl bromide that can be economic and effective … [including the development of] new uses for sulfuryl fluoride (a pest control tool in the building fumigation industry for more than 40 years) that can replace methyl bromide in some food processing, grain milling and stored commodity applications.”

“Dow AgroSciences is pleased to be recognized by the U.S. EPA for our development of methyl bromide-alternative products,” says Jason Nelson, marketing specialist for ProFume® gas fumigant. It is the second recognition of this kind that Dow AgroSciences had earned for ProFume, he notes. In 2002, Dow AgroSciences was given the agency’s Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award. An expanded label for ProFume gas fumigant was registered by the EPA in 2005 for use in food handling establishments, including dried fruit and tree nuts, and cereal grains. The food processing label has been registered in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. For more information on ProFume gas fumigant, visit www.ProFume.com.